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Pubescent attitudinal correlates antecedent to adolescent illegitimate pregnancy.
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The assumed etiology of adolescent illegitimate pregnancy is reviewed, and seven central concepts are indicated, and the prognostic value of these, concepts, expressed as antecedent attitudes, is evaluated by secondary analysis of data drawn from a lengthy, survey of seventh graders.Abstract:
The assumed etiology of adolescent illegitimate pregnancy is reviewed, and seven central concepts are indicated. The prognostic value of these, concepts, expressed as antecedent attitudes, is evaluated by secondary analysis of data drawn from a lengthy, survey of seventh graders. A multiple regression equation, of three factor-analysis terms, CR(2)=0.83, is described.read more
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The Role of Responsibility and Knowledge in Reducing Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of knowledge and attitudes on teenage out-of-wedlock childbearing and found that knowledge, as measured by sex education courses and self-reported birth control knowledge, has no effect on the chances that a black or white female will experience an outofwedlock birth as a teenager.
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Psychological correlates of teenage motherhood
TL;DR: Findings suggest that adolescent mothers and pregnant teenagers are less distressed by their situation than was once thought and social supports and socioeconomic status predicted psychological well-being better than parenting status.
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Family, individual, and social correlates of early Hispanic adolescent sexual expression
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the theory-based hypothesis that family influences would be stronger predictors of Hispanic adolescent sexual behavior than would individual and social influences and found that peer, rather than family influences, were more highly related to the sexual expression of young Hispanic teens.
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Adolescent Pregnancy: A Review of the Literature.
TL;DR: In the late 1960's and early 1970's illegitimacy among adolescents became recognized as a serious national, medical and social problem and the need to effect strategies to deal with the multifaceted problems of adolescence is even more acute.
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Sex-role attitudes as predictors of contraceptive use among unmarried university students.
TL;DR: It is found that nontraditional sex-role-related attitudes in conjunction with an internal locus of control orientation are predictive of effective contraception for women respondents and neither variable alone or jointly explained contraceptive behavior of men respondents.
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