Future Orientation, Perception of Population Problems and Birth Planning Behavior
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 46 (2) , 501-502
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.46.2.501
Abstract
A measure of the strength of future orientation in a sample of 350 college students correlated positively with the perceived seriousness of the U.S. and world population problems as well as the likelihood of using a variety of birth control techniques. Correlations were low (.20 to .30).This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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