Affection of the maternal role due to the pandemic

Abstract

The ability of a woman to forge parenting practices according of the needs of the child is known as the construction of the maternal role which is developed within a context that marks the adaptation needs of the role. At the present time the pandemic and the existence or lack of family support are the conditions that most affect this role. A comparative study is presented using snowball sampling, where the adoption of the maternal role scale proposed by Ramona Mercer was applied to 23 mothers with children under six months 13 of them with family support and 10 without it. When analyzing the information the characteristics that had statistically significant were taker and the interviewees were called so that they were the ones to determine which of these characteristics were affected by the pandemic. In this study it was concluded that the pandemic has affected the maternal role mainly in the microsystem in both group she mothers who have family support have a greater adoption of the role while  mothers  without support have a lover level of role construction and support it is the use of technology. Both groups feel distant support from the health sector.