Dimensions of personality organization as predictors of teenage pregnancy risk
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Journal of Personality Assessment
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Personality development as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test, The Friedman Developmental Level Scoring System for the Rorschach, The Urist Mutuality of Autonomy Scale, The Thematic Apperception Test, and indexes from a structured interview were able to discriminate between teenagers at high- and low-risk for pregnancy. In addition, these measures correlated significantly with each other and enabled a description and comparison of the personality characteristics of adolescents who are at risk for pregnancy and those who are not.
Keywords:
Adolescent PregnancyAdolescentsAdolescents, FemaleAge FactorsBehaviorContraceptionContraceptive UsageDemographic FactorsFamily PlanningFertilityPerceptionPersonalityPopulationPopulation At RiskPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsPremarital Sex BehaviorPsychological FactorsReproductive BehaviorResearch MethodologySelf-perceptionSex BehaviorTestingYouth