Attitudes Toward Abortion

Part I of Essay
In the last two decades studies on the correlates of have proliferated (Hertel, et al., 1974; Renzi, 1975; Granberg, 1978; McIntosh, et al., 1979; D'Antonio and Stack, 1980; Benin, 1985; Harris and Mills, 1985; McCutcheon, 1987; Jelen, 1988). Although these studies have cl ....

Part II of Essay
.... conservativism on . I will show that there is not only a direct relationship, as many prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on . A THEORETICAL MODEL Attitudinal Effects In the literature on abortion attitudes (e.g., Granberg, 1978; Barnartt and Harris, 1982; Granberg and Granberg, 1981; Benin, 1985), several general clusters of attitudes--religiosity, conservativism, and feminism--show ....