FEMININITY IDEOLOGY AND RISK OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY

女性意识形态和意外怀孕的风险

• 批准号: 2668595
• 负责人: DEBORAH L TOLMAN
• 金额: $ 7.97万
• 依托单位: WELLESLEY COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-03-02 至 2000-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2668595
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; female; human puberty; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; personality; psychological identification; self concept; sex behavior; sex roles; social class; unwanted child

This proposal is a response to NICHD's request for application for research that 1) extends the small empirical base linking gender roles and ideologies to behaviors relating to unintended pregnancy, 2) includes racial and ethnic minorities and 3) includes qualitative as well as quantitative methods. A five-year project is proposed to evaluate whether and how femininity ideology is associated with an increased risk of unintended pregnancy, as is suggested by the theoretical and empirical literatures. The concept of gender idiology will be extended by the creation and validation of a scale to measure femininity ideology. This scale will then be used in a longitudinal study that consists of 1) a survey of 500 eighth-grade female adolescents, who are Black, Hispanic and white from poor, working class and middle class backgrounds, who live in a community with a high teenage birth rate and 2) individual interviews with approximately 50 of those surveyed. A second panel of data collection will occur in the tenth grade. The theoretical framework for the study marries concerns about the high risk of unintended pregnancy for early adolescents with the gender role intensification that occurs in this development period. Multivariate regression analyses will be used to test the following hypotheses; 1) Femininity ideology is associated with risk for unintended pregnancy in girls during adolescence and is a) moderated by race, socioeconomic status, feminine personality trait and sexual involvement and b) mediated by agency in sexual relationships and girls' acceptance of their sexuality and 2) Femininity ideology in early adolescence is a stronger predictor of risk of unintended pregnancy in middle adolescence than is femininity ideology in middle adolescence. The role of femininity ideology in behaviors that can result in risk of unintended pregnancy for adolescent girls in specific contexts will be described qualitatively. Content analysis will be used to identify the salient themes of femininity ideology in situations that invite risk for girls from different racial/ethnic backgrounds as they move from early to middle adolescence. Using narrative analysis, the ways in which these adolescent girls use femininity ideology to make sense of sexual, contraceptive and reproductive behavior which can lad to risk of unintended pregnancy will be documented.

本提案是对NICHD申请研究的请求的回应 （1）扩大了将性别角色联系在一起的小的经验基础， 与意外怀孕有关的行为的意识形态，2）包括 种族和族裔少数群体; 3）包括定性以及 定量方法 一个为期五年的项目，以评估是否 以及女性意识形态如何与 意外怀孕，正如理论和经验所表明的那样， 文学。 性别习惯学的概念将通过 创建和验证衡量女性意识形态的量表。 这 然后将在纵向研究中使用量表，该研究包括：1） 调查了500名八年级女青少年，她们是黑人、西班牙裔和 来自穷人、工人阶级和中产阶级背景的白色人， 青少年出生率高的社区，2）与 约50人被调查。 第二个数据收集小组将 发生在十年级。 本研究的理论框架结合了 对青少年早期意外怀孕高风险的关切 随着性别角色的强化， 期 多变量回归分析将用于检验 以下假设; 1）女性意识形态与以下风险相关： 少女在青春期意外怀孕，a）由以下因素调节： 种族、社会经济地位、女性人格特质和性取向 参与和B）由机构调解的性关系和女孩 2）早期女性意识形态 青春期是一个更强的预测意外怀孕的风险， 而不是女性意识形态。 的 女性意识形态在行为中的作用可能导致 少女在特定情况下的意外怀孕将是 定性描述。 内容分析将用于确定 女性意识形态的突出主题，在邀请风险的情况下， 来自不同种族/民族背景的女孩从幼儿到成年 青春期中期 使用叙事分析，这些方法 青春期女孩利用女性意识形态来理解性， 避孕和生殖行为，这可能会导致意外的风险 怀孕将被记录。