Dreams of tigers and flowers: Child gender predictions and preference in an urban mainland chinese sample during pregnancy

Women and Health

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-65

  Loo, Kek Khee ^a,b   Luo, Xiying ^e   Su, Hong ^c   Presson, Angela ^a,d   Li, Yan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital of Kunming City   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culture; Families; Folk beliefs; Folklores; Gender; One child policy; Parenting; Pregnancy; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DREAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MOTHER; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; SUPERSTITION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUPERSTITIONS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62149129021     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630240802694673     Document Type: Article

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