Preliminary Study of Hope in Adolescents Who Experience Unwanted Pregnancies
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- hope, unwanted pregnancy, adolescents, losing hope
- Abstract
In Indonesian unwanted pregnancies in adolescents has been a popular phenomenon and it happens mostly because of premarital sexual problem. Premarital sexual adolescents among Indonesian communities are unacceptable acts both according to social norm and Indonesian culture. Mostly in Indonesian community usually reacted to both those who do premarital sexual behavior and unwanted pregnancies with social consequences such as being expelled from school and exiled from the community even more to those who experience unwanted pregnancies. Negative social stigma related to unwanted premarital pregnancy worsens the psychological experience of the subject. Young women and teenage-girls who experience unwanted pregnancy often experience depression, hopelessness, helplessness, and suicidal thought. This paper is a small part of a thesis that investigate lived experiences of women who have gone through social and psychological difficulties due to teenage unwanted pregnancy. The thesis investigates how the women strive for hope and move on with their lives. As part of the literature review of the thesis, this article unpacks what have known about psychological effects of teenage unwanted pregnancy and what the literature says about the dynamic of hope.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Devi Sumarno AU - Hani Yulindrasari AU - Rahayu Ginintasasi PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/07 TI - Preliminary Study of Hope in Adolescents Who Experience Unwanted Pregnancies BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 43 EP - 46 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077 ID - Sumarno2020 ER -