Mollborn Stefanie
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Sociol Q. 2010 Spring;51(2):303-328. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2010.01173.x.
African American and Latino teenagers and communities are frequently assumed to have weaker norms against teenage pregnancy than whites. Despite their importance, adolescents' norms about teenage pregnancy have not been measured or their correlates and consequences documented. This study examines individual-level and contextual variation in adolescents' embarrassment at the prospect of a teenage pregnancy and its relationship with subsequent teenage pregnancy. Descriptive analyses find that norms vary by gender and individual- and neighborhood-level race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES). In multivariate analyses, neighborhood-level racial/ethnic associations with embarrassment are explained by neighborhood-level SES. Embarrassment is associated with a lower likelihood of subsequent teenage pregnancy but does not mediate racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic influences, underscoring the importance of both norms and structural factors for understanding teenage fertility.
非裔美国人和拉丁裔青少年及其社区常被认为对青少年怀孕的规范约束比白人更宽松。尽管青少年对青少年怀孕的规范很重要，但尚未对其进行衡量，也未记录其相关因素和后果。本研究考察了青少年对青少年怀孕前景感到尴尬的个体层面和背景差异，以及这种差异与随后青少年怀孕的关系。描述性分析发现，规范因性别以及个体和社区层面的种族、族裔和社会经济地位（SES）而异。在多变量分析中，社区层面的种族/族裔与尴尬之间的关联可由社区层面的SES来解释。尴尬与随后青少年怀孕的可能性较低相关，但并未介导种族、族裔或社会经济影响，这凸显了规范和结构因素对于理解青少年生育率的重要性。
