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The Nature and Dynamics of Post‐Sterilization Regret in Married Women 1
Author(s) -
Miller Warren B.,
Shain Rochelle N.,
Pasta David J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1990.tb00425.x
Subject(s) - regret , vasectomy , sterilization (economics) , psychology , demography , social psychology , family planning , research methodology , gynecology , population , medicine , statistics , mathematics , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , currency , foreign exchange market
Data for nine different indicators of regret were collected from 213 married women with a tubal sterilization and 137 wives of men with a vasectomy at 1,2, and 3 years following surgical sterilization. Relationships between the indicators across the 3 years and within each year were analyzed, using two psychological models. A final, combined model was synthesized and fitted to the data. This model addresses many of the important issues of reliability and validity that have plagued the literature on post‐sterilization regret for years.