An Ecological Analysis of Pregnancy Resolution Decisions among African American and Hispanic Adolescent Females

Bibliographic Data

ID2330232
AuthorsVelma Mcbride Murry (0000-0003-2663-2738, University of Georgia, Athens, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume26
Issue3
Pages325-350
Publication date1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x95026003003
PMID12156363
OpenAlexW2011970565
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited39

Using data from the 1988 National Family Growth Cycle, IV, this study sought to identify specific individual, family, sociocultural, and social structure factors that influence pregnancy resolution decisions of first conception among African American and Hispanic adolescents aged 15 to 21 years. A hierarchial discriminant function analysis was used to determine the extent to which selected variables could distinguish those who terminated their first pregnancy from those who decided to carry their first pregnancies to full term. Three individual factors (age at conception, contraceptive behavior pattern, degree of self-disclosure about the pregnancy), two family-level variables (family sexuality socialization, family income), and each of the selected social structure (access to sexual health care facilities) and sociocultural factors (religious affiliation and church attendance) were found to discriminant between the two groups. However, the discriminating power of these variables differed depending on race/ethnicity

Attendance · Biology · Developmental psychology · Discriminant function analysis · Ethnic group · Family planning · Human sexuality · National Survey of Family Growth · Population · Pregnancy · Socialization · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology