Bessett Danielle, Gerdts Caitlin, Littman Lisa L, Kavanaugh Megan L, Norris Alison
a Department of Sociology , University of Cincinnati , Cincinnati , USA.
Cult Health Sex. 2015;17(6):733-46. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.994230. Epub 2015 Jan 26.
Recently, the hypothesis that state-level political context influences individuals' cultural values--the 'red states v. blue states' hypothesis--has been invoked to explain the hyper-polarisation of politics in the USA. To test this hypothesis, we examined individuals' knowledge about abortion in relation to the political context of their current state of residence. Drawing from an internet-survey of 586 reproductive-age individuals in the USA, we assessed two types of abortion knowledge: health-related and legality. We found that state-level conservatism does not modify the existing relationships between individual predictors and each of the two types of abortion knowledge. Hence, our findings do not support the 'red states' versus 'blue states' hypothesis. Additionally, we find that knowledge about abortion's health effects in the USA is low: 7% of our sample thought abortion before 12 weeks gestation was illegal.
最近，有人提出州级政治环境会影响个人文化价值观的假设——即“红州对蓝州”假设——用以解释美国政治的高度两极分化现象。为了验证这一假设，我们考察了个人对堕胎的了解情况与其当前居住州政治环境之间的关系。基于对美国586名育龄个体的网络调查，我们评估了两类堕胎知识：与健康相关的知识和合法性知识。我们发现，州级保守主义并未改变个体预测因素与这两类堕胎知识之间已有的关系。因此，我们的研究结果不支持“红州”与“蓝州”假设。此外，我们发现美国民众对堕胎健康影响的了解程度较低：我们样本中有7%的人认为妊娠12周前堕胎是违法的。
