{
  "creator": [
    "Triliva, Sofia",
    "Brusten, Catherine M."
  ],
  "date": [
    "2011-11-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "An exploratory study sought to reconcile certain contradictions  regarding the role of mothers as presented in the social science  literature through probing subjective accounts of mothers in the rapidly  changing social milieu of Greece. Previous research that has focused on  motherhood in Greek society has highlighted how women who become  mothers have been given iconic status. However, modern Cretan mothers  are increasingly faced with novel challenges. The subjective perceptions  of motherhood of Cretan women attending a community group which focused  on parenting were probed. Qualitative analysis was carried out on the  written narrative accounts. Participants’ responses corresponded to the  following levels of narrative analysis: personal,  interpersonal/transgenerational, and societal-ideological. Narratives  revealed that mothers were experiencing high levels of personal and  interpersonal dissonance which impinged upon their identities and  challenged them in their roles as mothers. The women’s narrative  accounts underscored the emotional and social importance of having  achieved the coveted role of being a mother, the stressful and pressure  inducing social context which mandates how the mothering role should be  enacted, and dialectics between the personal, intergenerational and  social levels of experience.  The implications of these findings are  discussed with regard to identity and relatedness within the family and  how social and professional constructs of mothering lag behind social  changes."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/157",
    "10.5964/ejop.v7i4.157"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/157/157.pdf"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 7 No. 4 (2011); 640-663",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "motherhood",
    "Crete",
    "subjective accounts",
    "qualitative research"
  ],
  "title": [
    "From icon to person: Findings from a qualitative study of motherhood in Crete"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}