FEMININITY IDEOLOGY AND RISK OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY

女性意识形态和意外怀孕的风险

• 批准号: 2883144
• 负责人: DEBORAH L TOLMAN
• 金额: $ 7.84万
• 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 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2883144
• 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 申请研究请求的回应 1）扩展了将性别角色联系起来的小型经验基础 与意外怀孕相关的意识形态和行为，2) 包括 种族和族裔少数群体，3) 包括质量和 定量方法。 建议开展一个为期五年的项目来评估是否 以及女性意识形态如何与增加的风险相关 理论和经验表明，意外怀孕 文献。 性别意识形态的概念将通过 创建并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) 对 500 名八年级女性青少年的调查，她们是黑人、西班牙裔和 来自贫穷、工人阶级和中产阶级背景的白人，他们生活在 青少年生育率高的社区和 2) 个人访谈 大约有 50 名受访者。 第二组数据收集将 发生在十年级。 研究的理论框架结合 对青少年早期意外怀孕的高风险的担忧 随着这一发展中性别角色的强化 时期。 将使用多元回归分析来检验 以下假设； 1) 女性意识形态与以下风险相关： 女孩在青春期意外怀孕的原因是 a) 种族、社会经济地位、女性人格特质和性 参与和 b) 由机构介导的性关系和女孩的 接受自己的性取向以及 2) 早期的女性意识形态 青春期是意外怀孕风险的更强预测因素 青春期中期比青春期中期的女性意识形态更重要。 这 女性意识形态在可能导致以下风险的行为中的作用 少女在特定情况下的意外怀孕将 定性地描述。 内容分析将用于识别 在带来风险的情况下女性意识形态的突出主题 来自不同种族/族裔背景的女孩从早年过渡到 青春期中期。 通过叙述分析，这些方式 青春期女孩利用女性意识形态来理解性、 避孕和生殖行为可能会带来意外风险 怀孕将被记录。