Correlation of moral development with use of birth control and pregnancy among teenage girls
Jurs, J.
Psychological Reports 55(3): 1009-1010
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2941 PMID: 6522535 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1984.55.3.1009Document Number: 575515
Persons who are responsible for designing programs for teenage girls would be assisted by a relevant theory of moral development and decision making. A study of 75 teenage girls indicated no statistically significant differences in moral development when comparing pregnant and never pregnant girls, responsible and non-responsible birth control users and those who chose to abort and those who continued the pregnancy. Significant differences in moral development were found between those who had taken a sex education course and those who had not.