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Attitude Toward Abortion and Attitude-Relevant Overt Behavior*

 

作者: Edward H. Fischer,   Amerigo Farina,  

 

期刊: Social Forces  (OUP Available online 1978)
卷期: Volume 57, issue 2  

页码: 585-599

 

ISSN:0037-7732

 

年代: 1978

 

DOI:10.1093/sf/57.2.585

 

出版商: The University of North Carolina Press

 

数据来源: OUP

 

摘要:

Relationships between attitude and overt behaviors were examined in two studies. Attitude toward abortion was assessed by questionnaire in undergraduate classes. Two to three months later pro- and anti-abortion subjects were seen individually, for an ostensibly unrelated project, and were asked to transcribe resolutely pro- or anti-abortion scripts. Supposedly the recordings would be used in a future study designed to convince hospital personnel either to support or refuse to participate in abortion procedures. In Study I, where respondents were allowed to transcribe either script, a strong attitude / choice-behavior correlation resulted: ϕ = .60. In Study II, the script was assigned randomly, creating attitude-congruent and attitude-discrepant conditions. Three criteria were affected in the expected way by attitude-congruency / discrepancy: (a) recording one's name with the persuasive message (ϕ = .56); (b) authorizing use of an identified tape (ϕ =.44); and (c) self-estimates of persuasiveness (ϕ = .36). Two other intuitively relevant behaviors werenotsignificantly associated with attitude-congruency /discrepancy. The observed correlations were high, compared to previous attitude-behavior research, and some possible explanations are offered.

 

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