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Attitudes of Selected Secondary Students toward Family Planning Education
Author(s) -
McDonough Mercier Joyce,
Hughes Ruth P.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8101000203
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , curriculum , test (biology) , medical education , developmental psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , medicine , geography , paleontology , cartography , biology
The purpose of this research was to examine possible relationships of attitudes of secondary students toward family planning education and selected variables of sex, age, religion, occu pation of mother, and occupation of father. Subjects included 735 secondary students, 490 female and 245 male, from Family Living classes in nine Midwestern rural and urban high schools. The instrument used in this study, Attitudes Toward Family Planning Education Scale, had reliabilities of .56 to .87 on the dimensions within the total scale. Data were analyzed using t‐tests, one‐way analysis of variance, and Scheffe range test. Findings indi cated that students were supportive of family planning education although females generally favored such education more than the males. As students matured and made normal progress through school, they had more favorable attitudes toward the concepts of family planning education. The students perceived their religion as providing a base of support for family planning education, and the higher the parents' occupational level, the more favorable were the students toward these concepts. Findings concerning relationships of variables to the dimensions will enable educators to develop more effective curricula for family planning education.