Maternity Social Support

: Most literature suggests the importance of social support during the
pregnancy. This research utilized the Spearman’s rho coefficient, which was calculated
between the Maternity Social Support Scale (MSSS) score and the Center for
Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score, as well as Prenatal Attachment
Inventory (PAI) score. The results confirm that during the pregnancy a high social
support level is associated with a low depression level and a high social support level is
associated with a high prenatal attachment level. Therefore, these results are
significant, especially for maternity wellbeing promotion programmes.
KEY WORDS: Maternity social support, Pregnancy, Prenatal Attachment, Depression,
Psychosocial factors.