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Procreation: How Others View Those Who Can Not or Will Not
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Beatty, Michelle
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1394881812
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2009, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
Abstract
Historically the United States has been a pronatalist society with expectations for couples to have children. According to previous research, childless couples have been subject to stigmatization regardless of why they are childless. In the current study, 123 college students rated a couple who was either voluntarily childless, involuntarily childless, parents, or of unmentioned parental status on a variety of impression measures, including relationship satisfaction and individual personality traits. Additionally, a loan task was utilized as a more subtle measure of discrimination. Impression scores and loan approval rates were compared for the four couples, with no statistically significant differences found. This might indicate a decline in stigmatization of and discrimination toward childless couples.
Committee
Christian End, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Christine M. Dacey, Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Member)
Kathleen J. Hart, Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Member)
Pages
91 p.
Subject Headings
Social Psychology
Keywords
fertility
;
reproduction
;
childfree choice
;
discrimination
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Beatty, M. (2009).
Procreation: How Others View Those Who Can Not or Will Not
[Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1394881812
APA Style (7th edition)
Beatty, Michelle.
Procreation: How Others View Those Who Can Not or Will Not.
2009. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1394881812.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Beatty, Michelle. "Procreation: How Others View Those Who Can Not or Will Not." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1394881812
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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