Family Size Preferences and Sexual Permissiveness as Factors Differentiating Abortion Activists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11325352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Granberg (0000-0002-4854-6075, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3033670 |
| OpenAlex | W2319441286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article reports a 1980 survey of members of two state-wide abortion-related organizations: Missouri Citizens for Life (MCL) and the Abortion Rights Alliance (ARA). Members of the MCL tended to have and prefer more children. However, using an ordered alternatives procedure, it was found that the two groups differed even more in what they found undesirable. Members of ARA tended to have larger latitudes of rejection and to find the largest families most undesirable. MCL members tended to have larger latitudes of noncommitment and to regard childlessness as most undesirable. The groups differed markedly on religious affiliation, religiosity, and on attitude items pertaining to birth control, sex education, divorce, and sexual permissiveness. The results were interpreted as strongly supportive of the thesis that opposition to legalized abortion reflects a traditional or conservative approach to matters of personal morality. Three regression models were used, including Catholicism, family size preferences, attitude toward premarital sex, education,, and attendance at religious services as independent variables, and group membership as the dependent variable. This study is discussed in the context of various approaches to analyzing social movements
Abortion · Birth control · Childlessness · Church attendance · Conservatism · Family planning · Fertility · General Social Survey · Morality · Opposition (politics · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Religiosity · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes
Exploring U.S. Social Work Students’ Sexual Attitudes and Abortion Viewpoints
Resources, Masculinities, and Gender Differences Among Pro-life Activists
The Abortion Controversy as a Problem in Contemporary American History
Abortion research
The Gender Conservatism of Pro-life Activists
Pornography and moral attitudes
Gender, Religion, and Pro-Life Activism
Social problems as social movements
Abortion Attitudes, 1965-1980
Abortion Politics
Contextual and ideological dimensions of attitudes toward discretionary abortion
Ideal family size among white Americans
The Measurement of Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Fertility
Nine demographic factors and their relationship to attitudes toward abortion legalization
The Rise and Fall of Public Opposition in Specific Social Movements
Abortion Laws and Their Victims
Solidarity Model, Breakdown Model, and the Boston Anti-Busing Movement
The Analysis of Countermovements
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2021 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |