PSYCHOEMOTICAL STATE STABILIZATION PECULIARITIES OF WOMEN IN PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL PERIODS

Prenatal and postnatal periods in women are the most difficult stages of life, both physiologically and emotional-ly. During these periods, women suffer from changes in the endocrine profile, uncertainty, fear for the future of the child. These factors affect the stability of the psychoemotional state of a woman, the course of pregnancy and child-birth, the health of a newborn child. In order to provide timely assistance to women in these periods, it is necessary to clearly understand the level of stabilization of their psychoemotional state. The paper presents the analysis of the re-sults of the conducted empirical study of the features of stabilizing the psychoemotional state of women in prenatal and postnatal periods. There have been distinguished the criteria (awareness of motherhood, motivational maturity, emotional stability, adaptive capacity), performance (understanding the essence of prenatal, postnatal periods by women, knowledge of the basic aspects of motherhood, the need for well-being, readiness for changes in the level of the value of motherhood, the child, others, anxiety, emotional stability, ability for self-regulation, favorite occupation), levels of psychoemotional state stabilization in women in the prenatal and postnatal periods (high, medium, low). A number of tests and questionnaires were applied in the study involving 99 women in order to assess the levels of their psychoemotional state stabilization in the prenatal and postnatal periods. Quantitative processing of empirical data was carried out applying mathematical-statistical data processing methods using the computer program SPSS. As a result of the research it has been revealed that the psychoemotional state of most women in the prenatal and postnatal periods is insufficiently stable, and requires corrective support, whose program is going to be considered in further stud-ies.