Hypothesis about teenage pregnancy

A ng an accepted ing teenage pregnancy norms and their effect on resource ad data and study pal investigator(s):Stefanie bailey sity of colorado : mollborn@ period: 04/28/2005 - 05/06/ study focuses on perceptions of teenage pregnancy and on one process by which pregnancy norms may affect teenage parents futures. Transition norms such as pregnancy norms are central to life course theory but have not been measured satisfactorily among adults. First, do pregnancy norms in the united states vary by the age and sex of the parent-to-be?

Second, do pregnancy norms affect how much material help family members are willing to provide to teenage parents? Results show that pregnancy norms are more strongly negative when the prospective parent is a teenager rather than an adult, and respondents who report stronger norms against pregnancy are less willing to provide resources to prospective esis 1: respondents will report more strongly negative pregnancy norms when the prospective parent is an adolescent rather than a young esis 2: the strength of the negative pregnancy norm will vary by the gender of the prospective parent, with stronger norms for esis 3: family members who report more strongly negative pregnancy norms will provide fewer resources such as money, housing, and child care to the prospective parent as a form of mental manipulations:The short vignette manipulates the age and gender of the prospective parent:Condition 1: 16-year-old ion 2: 16-year-old ion 3: 26-year-old ion 4: 26-year-old dependent variables:For analysis 1: unmarried pregnancy norm (respondent's level of embarrassment at the prospect of their unmarried hypothetical daughter getting pregnant/their hypothetical son getting a woman pregnant). Their reporting of pregnancy norms and resource provision are based on this hypothetical s from multivariate analyses show that hypothesis 1 is supported: respondents report significantly stronger negative norms when the prospective parent is a teenager compared to a young adult (p<.

Hypothesis 2 is not supported: there is no association between the gender of the prospective parent and the strength of the reported pregnancy norm. Respondents do not, for example, report more strongly negative norms against the pregnancy of an adolescent girl compared to others. A second set of analyses finds support for hypothesis 3 across all four measures of resource provision (general help, living at home, babysitting, and financial support): as pregnancy norms become more strongly negative, respondents are less willing to provide general help (p<.

This study's findings provide support for the theory's idea that teenage parents have violated transition norms about pregnancy--that there are stronger norms against teenage pregnancy than adult pregnancy. If the amount of resources available to teenage parents influences their outcomes in life, then this would specify one process by which violating transition norms leads to worse life rn, stefanie. 2005 mar;59(3): effect of dislike of school on risk of teenage pregnancy: testing of hypotheses using longitudinal data from a randomised trial of sex c1, allen e, strange v, copas a, oakley a, stephenson j, johnson information1public and environmental health research unit, london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, keppel street, london wc1e 7ht, uk.

Ractstudy objective: to examine whether attitude to school is associated with subsequent risk of teenage pregnancy. To test two hypotheses that attitude to school is linked to pregnancy via pathways involving young people having "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge and : analysis of longitudinal data arising from a trial of sex education. Examination of associations between attitude to school and protected first sex, unprotected first sex, unprotected and protected last sex, and pregnancy, both crude and adjusting in turn for expectation of parenting by age 20, lack of expectation of education/training at age 20, and sexual health knowledge and g: schools in central and southern ipants: girls of median age 13.

Years at follow up results: in unadjusted analysis, attitude to school was significantly associated with protected and unprotected first sex by follow up 1, protected first sex between follow up 1 and 2, unprotected last sex, and pregnancy. These associations remained after adjusting for socioeconomic status and for expectation of parenting, lack of expectation of education/training, and various indicators of knowledge and confidence about sexual sions: dislike of school is associated with subsequent increased risk of teenage pregnancy but the mechanism underlying any possible causal link is unlikely to involve "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge or : 15709083 pmcid: pmc1733029 doi: 10. Gov'tmesh termsadolescentadolescent behavior/psychology*contraception behavior/psychologyenglandfemalehealth knowledge, attitudes, practicehumanslongitudinal studiespregnancypregnancy in adolescence/psychology*risk-takingschool health servicesschools*sex education*sexual behavior/psychology*grant supportg9626797/medical research council/united kingdomlinkout - more resourcesfull text sourceshighwireeurope pubmed centralovid technologies, centralpubmed central canadaother literature sourcescos scholar universemedicalpregnancy - genetic alliancechild behavior disorders - medlineplus health informationteenage pregnancy - medlineplus health informationpubmed commons home.

2003 nov;57(11): of social exclusion on the risk of teenage pregnancy: development of hypotheses using baseline data from a randomised trial of sex cp1, strange vj, stephenson jm, oakley ar, copas aj, forrest sp, johnson am, black information1social science research unit, institute of education, university of london, ctstudy objective: the uk government argues that "social exclusion" increases risk of teenage pregnancy and that educational factors may be dimensions of such exclusion. This paper develops hypotheses on the relation between socioeconomic and educational dimensions of social exclusion, and risk of teenage pregnancy, by examining whether dislike of school and socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with cognitive/behavioural risk measures among 13/14 year olds in english : analysis of data from the baseline survey of a study of sex g and participants: 13/14 year old school students from south east results: the results indicate that socioeconomic disadvantage and dislike of school are associated with various risk factors, each with a different pattern. For most associations, the crude odds ratios (ors) and the ors adjusted for the other exposure were similar, suggesting that inter-confounding between exposures was sions: it is hypothesised that in determining risk of teenage pregnancy, the two exposures are independent.

Those disliking school might be at greater risk of teenage pregnancy because they are more likely to see teenage pregnancy as inevitable or : 14600112 pmcid: pmc1732333 [indexed for medline] free pmc articlesharepublication types, mesh termspublication typesclinical trialrandomized controlled trialresearch support, non-u. Gov'tmesh termsadolescentadolescent behavior/psychologycausalityenglandfemalehumansmaleodds ratiopregnancypregnancy in adolescence/psychology*risk factorssex education/methods*sexual behavior/psychologysocial isolation/psychology*socioeconomic factorslinkout - more resourcesfull text sourceshighwireeurope pubmed centralovid technologies, centralpubmed central canadaother literature sourcescos scholar universemedicalpregnancy - genetic allianceteenage pregnancy - medlineplus health informationpubmed commons home.