Date of Award:
5-1972
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Jay D. Schvaneveldt
Committee
Jay D. Schvaneveldt
Committee
Don Carter
Committee
Stan Albrecht
Abstract
This intergenerational study compared the family planning and related attitudes of females who were daughter-mother-grandmother relatives. Questionnaire responses of eighty-one subjects in twenty-seven three-generation families were analyzed regarding birth control, abortion, and population crisis attitudes. Other variables studied included Mormon orthodoxy, education, and place of residence.
Except for abortion, the generations had significantly different attitudes. The oldest generation's attitudes, which were the most conservative, differed significantly when contrasted with the more similar attitudes of the middle and younger generations. Mormon orthodoxy was the most dramatically significant factor in attitude differences. Education and residence were not significant sources of attitude variance; however, there was an education and orthodoxy interaction, with low orthodoxy-high education respondents having abortion attitudes which were significantly more liberal than other respondents.
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Recommended Citation
Miller, Brent C., "Family Planning of Mormon Women in Three-Generation Families" (1972). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2310.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2310
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