GENDER, RACE AND COHORT DIFFERENCES IN ABORTION ATTITUDE

描述(改编自申请者摘要)：一半 1994年终止的怀孕是意外的，其中一半是 堕胎终止了妊娠。关于堕胎的民意调查似乎并没有 以反映每年150万堕胎妇女的行为。我们 需要区分公众和个人的普遍态度 女性所持的态度。美国对堕胎的需求可能会 保持高水平。因此，重要的是要了解的形成和 堕胎态度的改变，因为态度塑造了意图和意图 确定行为。同样重要的是男性对堕胎的态度 因为：首先，美国的政策制定是由男性主导的。第二，男人是 对意外怀孕同样负有责任，以及他们对 堕胎可能会影响他们自己以及他们的伴侣的性和避孕 行为。第三，男性也会受到意外怀孕的影响，他们可能 影响关于妊娠解决方案的决定。 拟议研究的主要目的是分析队列、性别、 以及堕胎态度的种族差异，在影响 堕胎态度的形成，以及堕胎态度对 随后的生殖行为。具体地说，我们将研究：(1)队列 年20-27岁妇女堕胎态度的差异 1983年和1991年；(2)堕胎态度先行因素的差异 对于1983年和1991年的妇女队列，重点关注影响 态度的形成；(3)堕胎态度的种族差异。 1983年和1991年妇女堕胎态度的影响因素； 随着年龄的增长，1983年队列的堕胎态度发生了变化 特别关注观察期内生活事件的影响； (5)堕胎态度的性别差异及其影响因素 1991年的堕胎态度；(6)堕胎态度的种族差异和 1991年男性堕胎态度的影响因素；(7) 堕胎态度与随后生育行为的关系 (例如，避孕选择、意外生育、堕胎)；和(8)性别、种族 以及这些行为的队列差异可归因于 堕胎态度。调查人员将使用1983年国家统计局的数据 未婚妇女调查(NSUW)，1991年全国妇女调查(NSW)， 1991年全国男性调查(NSM)，1993年对NSM的后续调查结果，以及 1993年和1995年新南威尔士州为实现这些目标而进行的后续行动。 通过验证性因素分析得到测量模型。 将使用回归和结构方程来估计概念性的 模特。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): One-half of all pregnancies concluding in 1994 were unintended and one-half of these pregnancies were terminated by abortion. Opinion polls on abortion do not seem to reflect the behavior of 1.5 million women who have an abortion each year. We need to distinguish the generalized attitudes in the public from the personal attitudes held by women. The demand for abortion in the U.S. is likely to remain high. Therefore, it is important to understand the formation of and the change in abortion attitudes because attitudes shape intentions and intentions determine behavior. Equally important is the males' attitudes toward abortion because: First, policy making in U.S. is dominated by men. Second, men are equally responsible for unintended pregnancies, and their attitudes toward abortion may influence their own, and their partners' sexual and contraceptive behavior. Third, men are also affected by unintended pregnancy and they can influence decisions about pregnancy resolution. The primary purpose of the proposed research is to analyze the cohort, gender, and race differences in abortion attitudes, in the factors influencing the formation of abortion attitudes, and in the effects of abortion attitudes on subsequent reproductive behaviors. Specifically, we will examine: (1) Cohort differences in abortion attitudes among women who were 20-27 years of age in 1983 and in 1991; (2) The differences in the antecedents of abortion attitudes for the 1983 and the 1991 cohorts of women focusing on the factors that affect attitude formation; (3) Race differences in the abortion attitudes and in the antecedents of the abortion attitudes among women in 1983 and in 1991; (4) The change in abortion attitudes of the 1983 cohort as the cohort ages with particular focus on the effects of life events during the observation period; (5) Gender differences in the abortion attitudes and the antecedents of abortion attitudes in 1991; (6) Race differences in the abortion attitudes and in the antecedents of the abortion attitudes among men in 1991; (7) The relationship between abortion attitudes and subsequent reproductive behaviors (e.g., contraceptive choice, unintended birth, abortion); and (8) Gender, race and cohort differences in such behaviors as attributable to the differences in abortion attitudes. The investigators will use data from the 1983 National Survey of Unmarried Women (NSUW), the 1991 National Survey of Women (NSW), the 1991 National Survey of Men (NSM), the 1993 follow-up found of the NSM, and the 1993 and 1995 follow-up rounds of the NSW to accomplish these aims. Confirmatory factor analysis will be used to obtain the measurement model. Regression and structural equations will be used to estimate the conceptual model.