Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions: Evidence from the United States

Studies in Family Planning - Tập 40 Số 2 - Trang 87-100 - 2009
John Santelli1, Laura Lindberg2, Mark G. Orr3, Lawrence B. Finer4, Ilene S. Speizer5
1Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Chairman, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Avenue, B2, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: [email protected]
2Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY
3Associate Research Scientist, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Avenue, B2, New York, NY 10032.
4Director of Domestic Research, Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY.
5Research Associate Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC.

Tóm tắt

Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories (overdue and don't care). Desire included both affective and cognitive variables, as well as partner‐specific factors. Similar pregnancy‐intention dimensions were found for adolescent and adult women, across socioeconomic status, and among racial and ethnic groups. Both desire and mistiming were highly predictive of the decision to abort or continue the pregnancy. These analyses strongly support prior demographic thinking about the importance of both the timing of pregnancy and wanting a baby, but suggest that multidimensional rather than simple categorical measures of pregnancy intentions should be used.

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Studies in Family Planning

Tập 40 Số 2

87-100

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