Abstract
A series of 100 interviews with women attending ante"natal clinics at two Sydney public hospitals assessed their contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and practice and locus of personal control (whether they believed they controlled their own lives). Multiple regression analyses showed that locus of control was significantly related to their attitudes to contraception, but not to their contraceptive knowledge or practice. The implications of that finding for family planning programmes and sex education are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 339-345 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | British Journal of Medical Psychology |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1990 |
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
Keywords
- central nervous system
- contraception
- personality
- pregnancy
- preventation
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