TY - JOUR
T1 - Pregnancy decision making
T2 - Predictors of Early Stress and Adjustment
AU - Cohan, Catherine L.
AU - Dunkel-Schetter, Christine
AU - Lydon, John
N1 - Funding Information:
Cohan Catherine L. 1 Dunkel-Schetter Christine 1 Lydon John 2 1 University of California, Los Angeles 2 McGill University Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Catherine L. Cohan, Department of Psychology, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024–1563. This research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Institutional Training Grant MH15750 and by a UCLA Academic Senate grant 4–564040-CD-19900 to Professor Dunkel-Schetter. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the women who participated in this study, the staff of the Westside Women's Health Center, including Paula Leshay and Jade Singer, and our interviewers Lindsey Bergman, Mary Collins, and Jodi Olsen. We also thank Jacqueline Goodchilds, Rena Repetti, and Charles Wharton for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article. 6 1993 17 2 223 239 2 2 1993 10 9 1992 © 1993 Society for the Psychology of Women 1993 Society for the Psychology of Women Pregnancy decision making was examined among pregnant and nonpregnant women seeking pregnancy testing. The majority of women had decided upon and were certain of a decision to either abort or carry a possible pregnancy before learning the pregnancy-test results. Adjustment to pregnancy decision making was examined longitudinally among the women who tested positive for pregnancy. Pregnant participants were interviewed about their decisions to carry or abort their pregnancies at three times—immediately prior to pregnancy testing, a day after receiving positive test results, and 4 weeks later. Nearly all maintained their original decision over the course of the study. Adjustment was related primarily to which outcome was chosen and, to a lesser degree, to whether a woman was initially decided or not upon the outcome. The time surrounding pregnancy testing was stressful for women who decided to abort their pregnancies. However, negative feelings at the time of pregnancy testing among those who later aborted their pregnancies subsided by the end of the study and did not differ from those who carried their pregnancies.
PY - 1993/6
Y1 - 1993/6
N2 - Pregnancy decision making was examined among pregnant and nonpregnant women seeking pregnancy testing. The majority of women had decided upon and were certain of a decision to either abort or carry a possible pregnancy before learning the pregnancy-test results. Adjustment to pregnancy decision making was examined longitudinally among the women who tested positive for pregnancy. Pregnant participants were interviewed about their decisions to carry or abort their pregnancies at three times—immediately prior to pregnancy testing, a day after receiving positive test results, and 4 weeks later. Nearly all maintained their original decision over the course of the study. Adjustment was related primarily to which outcome was chosen and, to a lesser degree, to whether a woman was initially decided or not upon the outcome. The time surrounding pregnancy testing was stressful for women who decided to abort their pregnancies. However, negative feelings at the time of pregnancy testing among those who later aborted their pregnancies subsided by the end of the study and did not differ from those who carried their pregnancies.
AB - Pregnancy decision making was examined among pregnant and nonpregnant women seeking pregnancy testing. The majority of women had decided upon and were certain of a decision to either abort or carry a possible pregnancy before learning the pregnancy-test results. Adjustment to pregnancy decision making was examined longitudinally among the women who tested positive for pregnancy. Pregnant participants were interviewed about their decisions to carry or abort their pregnancies at three times—immediately prior to pregnancy testing, a day after receiving positive test results, and 4 weeks later. Nearly all maintained their original decision over the course of the study. Adjustment was related primarily to which outcome was chosen and, to a lesser degree, to whether a woman was initially decided or not upon the outcome. The time surrounding pregnancy testing was stressful for women who decided to abort their pregnancies. However, negative feelings at the time of pregnancy testing among those who later aborted their pregnancies subsided by the end of the study and did not differ from those who carried their pregnancies.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1993.tb00446.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1993.tb00446.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 12345377
AN - SCOPUS:0027611799
SN - 0361-6843
VL - 17
SP - 223
EP - 239
JO - Psychology of Women Quarterly
JF - Psychology of Women Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -