FEMININITY IDEOLOGY AND RISK OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY

女性意识形态和意外怀孕的风险

• 批准号: 6039264
• 负责人: DEBORAH L TOLMAN
• 金额: $ 3.72万
• 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 2003-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6039264
• 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.

这项建议是对NICHD申请研究的回应 1)扩大了将性别角色和性别角色联系起来的小型经验基础 与意外怀孕有关的行为的意识形态，2)包括 种族和少数民族以及3)包括质的和 数量化方法。提出了一项为期五年的项目，以评估 以及女性特质意识形态如何与患上 意外怀孕，正如理论和经验所表明的那样 文学作品。性别习惯学的概念将通过 创建和验证衡量女性特质意识形态的量表。这 然后将在包括1)a)的纵向研究中使用量表 对500名八年级女青少年的调查，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 青少年出生率高的社区和2)个人采访 接受调查的人中约有50人。第二个数据收集小组将 发生在十年级。这项研究的理论框架与 关注早期青少年意外怀孕的高风险 随着性别角色在这一发展中的强化 句号。多元回归分析将被用来检验 以下假设：1)女性气质意识形态与罹患 女孩在青春期意外怀孕，并受到以下因素的影响 种族、社会经济地位、女性人格特征和性别 参与和b)中介机构调停性关系和女孩 早期对女性性的接受和女性化思想 青春期是意外怀孕风险的更强预测因素 青春期中期的女性意识高于青春期中期的女性意识。这个 女性气质意识形态在可能导致高血压的行为中的作用 在特定情况下，少女意外怀孕的情况将是 定性地描述的。将使用内容分析来确定 在招致风险的情况下，女性意识的突出主题 来自不同种族/民族背景的女孩从早期到 青春期中期。使用叙事分析，这些 青春期的女孩用女性意识来理解性， 可能导致意外风险的避孕和生殖行为 怀孕将被记录在案。