University of Oviedo.
Psicothema. 2017 Nov;29(4):520-526. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2017.58.
This study examined attitudes towards and knowledge about abortion among undergraduate students doing eleven different subjects. The differences in attitudes and knowledge about abortion according to gender, religious and political affiliation, religiosity, sexual orientation, number of sex partners and previous sexual experience were also considered.
1,025 undergraduate students (58.34% women and 41.66% men; mean age 20.18) completed the following instruments: an adaptation of the Abortion Attitudes Scale by Hill, and an adaptation of Abortion Knowledge Test by Esposito and Basow.
With attitudes ranging from 0 to 100, medicine, psychology and nursing students were in the anti-abortion range (55.93, 54.19 and 53.62, respectively) while history, philology and physics students were in the pro-abortion rights range (48.44, 48.49 and 50.12, respectively). Law, medicine and nursing students showed greater theoretical knowledge about abortion, while physics, engineering and philology students proved to be the least knowledgeable.
Differences were found in students’ attitudes towards abortion and in knowledge about abortion depending on their degree subject. As in previous reports, differences were found in students´ attitudes towards abortion which reflected differences in religious affiliation, religiosity, political affiliation, and previous sexual experience.
本研究考察了 11 个不同专业的本科生对堕胎的态度和知识。还考虑了根据性别、宗教和政治信仰、宗教信仰、性取向、性伴侣数量和以往性经验的不同，对堕胎的态度和知识的差异。
1025 名本科生（58.34%女性和 41.66%男性；平均年龄 20.18 岁）完成了以下工具：Hill 的堕胎态度量表的改编版和 Esposito 和 Basow 的堕胎知识测试的改编版。
态度范围从 0 到 100，医学、心理学和护理专业的学生处于反堕胎范围（分别为 55.93、54.19 和 53.62），而历史、语言学和物理学专业的学生处于支持堕胎权利的范围（分别为 48.44、48.49 和 50.12）。法律、医学和护理专业的学生对堕胎的理论知识了解更多，而物理、工程和语言学专业的学生则知识最少。
学生对堕胎的态度和堕胎知识因所学专业而异。与之前的报告一样，学生对堕胎的态度存在差异，这反映了宗教信仰、宗教信仰、政治信仰和以往性经验的差异。
