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Community leaders' attitudes toward family planning
Author(s) -
Cole Steven G.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197607)4:3<283::aid-jcop2290040310>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - overpopulation , family planning , sterilization (economics) , psychology , social responsibility , social psychology , population , family medicine , public relations , medicine , political science , research methodology , environmental health , business , finance , exchange rate , foreign exchange market
Four separate samples of lawyers, businessmen, ministers, and physicians were requested to complete four separate non‐overlapping attitude questionnaires in an effort to assess their attitudes toward sterilization, individual responsibility for contraception, family size, social responsibility, overpopulation, and contraception in the lower class. The data indicated that the four professional groups differed in their attitudes and those differences provided the impetus for suggestions focused on developing and maintaining a positive relationship between the influential members of the community and the family planning clinic.