Higgins P G, Clough D H, Wallerstedt C
College of Nursing, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerqe, NM, USA.
Matern Child Nurs J. 1995 Jul-Sep;23(3):75-81.
To explore patterns and levels of self-esteem of pregnant substance abusers.
A descriptive prospective study to describe the self-esteem of pregnant substance abusers. Subjects (N = 31) were abusing and dependent on three or more legal and/or illegal substances. Subjects were asked one open-ended question regarding their self-esteem, then the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory (RSI) was administered.
Subjects gave 46 responses to the open-ended question. Overall, they used a single word to describe self-esteem. The most frequent response on the RSI was "low" for self-esteem, 23 subjects used positive terms, 20 used negative terms, and 3 reported a neutral term. The RSI confirmed the aspects of low self-esteem.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Problems with low self-esteem were evident. Intervention strategies need to be developed to increase self-esteem in pregnant substance abusers.
探讨孕期药物滥用者的自尊模式及水平。
一项描述性前瞻性研究，旨在描述孕期药物滥用者的自尊情况。研究对象（N = 31）滥用并依赖三种或更多合法和/或非法药物。向研究对象提出一个关于其自尊的开放式问题，然后进行罗森伯格自尊量表（RSI）测试。
研究对象对开放式问题给出了46条回答。总体而言，他们用一个词来描述自尊。RSI上最常见的自尊回答是“低”，23名研究对象使用了积极词汇，20名使用了消极词汇，3名报告为中性词汇。RSI证实了自尊水平较低的情况。
自尊水平低的问题很明显。需要制定干预策略来提高孕期药物滥用者的自尊。
