Attitudes toward elective abortion: Preliminary evidence of validity for the personal beliefs scale

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1267-1281

  Embree, Robert A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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ABORTION, INDUCED--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH REPORT; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ABORTION, INDUCED--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS; CHRISTIANITY; CORRELATION STUDIES; CULTURE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RELIGION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032093228     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.82.3.1267-1281     Document Type: Article

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