SOCIAL FEARS CONCERNING THE DECISION OF PREGNANT WOMEN ABOUT MEDICAL ABORTION

SOCIAL FEARS CONCERNING THE DECISION OF PREGNANT WOMEN ABOUT MEDICAL ABORTION

Authors

• В.И. Якухина

Keywords:

fear-classification, concept of «fear», social fears, major principles to fear- classification, generalized fear, fears, peculiar to pregnant women, unplanned (unwanted) pregnancy, medical abortion

Abstract

Subjects of consideration in this article are social fears and their countable significance for the decision concerning medical abortion. The article presents the results of empirical studies using a special questionnaire on social anxiety and sociophobia, diagnostics of interpersonal relations, life purport orientations and personal self-appraisal of pregnant women who make decisions about abortion. The author comes to a conclusion that social fears and individual peculiarities have a direct influence upon the decision of abortion. The necessity of special psychological training for pregnant women is viewed as the means reducing the number of medical abortion