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The Meaning and Impact of Partner's Accompaniment on Women's Adjustment to Abortion1

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: The present study examined the meaning of accompaniment to an abortion clinic by a male partner and explored the effects of accompaniment on women's immediate and three‐week post‐abortion psychological distress. A comparison of accompanied and unaccompanied women revealed few differences in demographic or psychological characteristics, although accompanied women perceived greater levels of social support from their partners and reported that they were in more committed relationships. The effects of accompaniment on women's post‐abortion distress were neither universally positive nor universally negative, but depended on the personal characteristics of the women involved. Consistent with Conservation of Resources Theory (Hobfoll, 1988), accompaniment was more beneficial for women who were high in personal coping resources than for women low in these resources.

Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology

DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb00573.x

Authors: Catherine Cozzarelli, Angela Karrasch, Nebi Sumer, Brenda Major

Institutions: Kansas State University, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Contraception

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1967981679

FWCI: 0.513

Cites: 38

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10