Markell Winters
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Factors associated with Hispanic teenagers' attitude toward contraceptives the importance of birth control.Attitudes of 240 female Hispanic teenagers in 1984-85 in New York City toward the importance of birth control (ATIBC) are examined contraceptives as a reflection of the following. The nonrandom sample advantages disadvantages oral contraceptives was recruited from pregnancy prevention classes. Other measures are identified by specific questions, i.e., clarity of longterm ortho evra goals is measured by the question. These 4 predictors (primary oral contraceptives and depression language, mother's education, importance of religion, and friends' perceived contraceptive pills birth control use) yielded an R of .55 and and R2 .31. The attitude scale was based on Malchy's and Cvetkovich and Grote's work and focused on peer influence, ortho evra parental attitudes, and strength of intention to use contraceptives. The questionnaire was available in English or Spanish. I have a clear idea of where I'm headed contraceptive pills in the future, and I know what I want out of life. The strongest single predictor is friends' perceived birth control use at 15% and mother's education contraception at 14%.. 1) lower scores were associated with teenagers who had mothers with low education (2nd-9th grades), and 2) teenagers contraception who spoke Spanish best; 3) perceived importance of religion was significantly related to lower ATIBC scores such that great importance was related to low scores and little importance was related to high scores; and 4) teenagers' belief about their friends' potential use of birth control was significantly related such that if 75% of friends were thought to use birth control. The results indicated that 4 variables were significantly associated with ATIBC scores. 9 research questions were of interest including whether girls in female-headed households were more likely to be sexually active and have higher ATIBC scores, whether Catholics will have lower ATIBC scores, whether spanish preference speakers have lower ATIBC scores, whether working mothers' children, or more highly educated mothers' children were more sexually active and have higher scores, whether religiosity lowers scores, whether higher educational aspirations increases scores, whether childrens' beliefs that most of the friends use contraceptive is related to higher cores, and whether clearer longterm goals are related to higher scores. Demographic factors, educational aspirations, maternal characteristics, religiosity, clarity of longterm goals, and perception of friends' behavior, i.e., the degree, formation, and variation of these factors.
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