Low-Income Women Describe Fertility-Related Expectations: Descriptive Norms, Injunctive Norms, and Behavior
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Low-income women describe fertility-related expectations: descriptive norms, injunctive norms, and behavior.
Social norms surrounding sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing may help guide women's health-related behaviors. In this study, we explore low-income women's perceptions of fertility-related norms by allowing women to describe their experiences with normative expectations. Semistructured interviews (n = 30) suggested that women in low-income subject positions articulate descriptive norms that g...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Communication
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1041-0236,1532-7027
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2010.521909