Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the use of Rogerain group counseling in promoting adjustment to maternal role among adolescent first preganancy. The hypothesis was that the posttest scores of the Adjustment to Maternal Role inventory (AMRI) in the experimental group would be higher than their pretest scores and that the post test scores of the experimental group would be higher than the posttest scores of the control group. The sample included 20 volunteer adolescents pregnant for the first time who attended the antenatal clinic of Siriraj Hospital and scored one half standard deviation below the mean on AMRI. The subject were randomly as to an experimental group and a control group, each group comprising 10 adolescents. The experimental group participated in Rogerian group counseling sessions for 8 weeks, each session lasting 2 hours, totaling 16 hours under the leadership of the researcher and a research assistant. In this research, the pretest posttest control group design was used. The instrument used were : 1. The Adjustment to Maternal Role Inventory Constructed by the researcher 2. a questionnaire for the subjects to evaluate the experience in the group. Deviations from the mean in the pretests and posttests of both groups were analysed by using the t test. Results show that the posttest scores of the experimental group were higher than their pretest scores at the .01 level of significance and that the posttest scores of the experiment group were higher than the posttest scores of the control group at the .01 level of significance.