Secor-Turner Molly, Sieving Renee, Garwick Ann
Department of Nursing, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA.
Am J Health Behav. 2011 Mar-Apr;35(2):162-74. doi: 10.5993/ajhb.35.2.4.
To describe aspects of the social context that low-income, urban African American young women articulate as having influenced social messages they received during adolescence about pregnancy timing and childbearing.
Individual interviews were conducted with 20 African American young women ages 18-22.
Findings clustered into 5 themes: first sex; getting ready and getting it over with; the path for African American girls; gender expectations: insecurity and independence; living into a future; and living in a context of instability and uncertainty.
Findings portray a complex relationship between social context, social messages, and decisions about pregnancy timing and childbearing.
描述低收入城市非裔美国年轻女性所阐述的社会环境方面,这些方面影响了她们在青春期收到的有关怀孕时机和生育的社会信息。
对20名年龄在18 - 22岁的非裔美国年轻女性进行了个人访谈。
研究结果归纳为5个主题:初次性行为;做好准备并结束此事;非裔美国女孩的道路;性别期望:不安全感与独立性;展望未来;生活在不稳定和不确定的环境中。
研究结果描绘了社会环境、社会信息以及怀孕时机和生育决策之间的复杂关系。