Is the Personal Always Political? A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Abortion Attitudes

Sahar, Gail; Karasawa, Kaori

doi:10.1207/s15324834basp2704_1

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“…Political affiliation is also related to abortion attitudes, with Democrats being more likely than Republicans to support abortion (Sahar & Karasawa, 2005;Simien & Clawson, 2004). This is clear in the media, as political battles are fought publicly around this issue, and is also supported by research (Hess & Rueb, 2005;Jelen & Wilcox, 2003).…”

Section: Other Factors Related To Abortion Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Increased religiosity (Bahr & Marcos, 2003;Bolzendahl & Myers, 2004;Gay & Lynxwiler, 1999;Hess & Rueb, 2005;Sahar & Karasawa, 2005) and church attendance (Scott, 1998;Sullins, 1999) are related to decreased support for abortion. This relationship is found in studies of adolescent males (Boggess & Bradner, 2000), and individuals of both sexes who are Hispanic (Ellison, Echevarria, & Smith, 2005), African American (Clawson & Clark, 2003;Simien & Clawson, 2004), and college students (Misra & Hohman, 2000).…”

Section: Other Factors Related To Abortion Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consistent with past research, we also include two variables from the GSS assessing respondent's political viewpoint (Combs & Welch, 1982;Lynxwiler & Gay, 1996;Sahar & Karasawa, 2005;Simien & Clawson, 2004). We use a variable that asks respondents whether they think of themselves a liberal or conservative.…”

Section: Journal Of Sociological Researchmentioning

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Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Carter

Dodge

2009

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The purpose of this paper is to reassess the interactive impact of race and gender on abortion attitudes over time. Data from the GSS are used to compare shifts in abortion attitudes of White and Black males and females over a four-decade period. Overall results suggest gender to be the stronger predictor of abortion attitudes. While maintaining similar attitudes toward abortion, White and Black males maintain more conservative attitudes than their female counterparts. Looking at trends, however, suggest that considering race and gender alone limits the understanding of abortion attitudes among these social groups. Results by decade reveal great shifts for White females in relation to Black females. White females and White males to a lesser extent initially appear more liberal in their views toward abortion; however, a shift over the decades produces a convergence and then a reversal, where Black females eventually become more liberal in the 1990s. Black males consistently reveal more conservative attitudes over the four-decade period than Black females and that trend appears to be holding. However, most interestingly and an area for further research, results suggest that abortion attitudes may actually be re-converging.

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Section: Other Factors Related To Abortion Attitudesmentioning

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Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

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Dodge

2009

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“…"Specifically, causes of a negative event perceived not to be under the personal control of the individual elicit pity or sympathy and intentions to help, whereas controllable causes give rise to anger and no help" (Sahar and Karasawa 2005). This theory provides a framework to assess why abortion would be approved in some cases or more instances and disapproved or approved in fewer instances than others.…”

Section: Attribution Theorymentioning

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“…The social psychological theory of symbolic predispositions and the symbolic politics model suggests that "individuals acquire learned affective responses or symbolic predispositions toward particular symbols during early socialization" (Sahar and Karasawa 2005;Sears et al 1980). That is, people learn how to feel and react to phenomena throughout their lives from early socialization.…”

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Do Baby Boomers Want Another Baby Boom?: A Gendered Generational Analysis of Abortion Attitudes

Washington¹

2017

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Building on research conducted by sociologists on the predictors of abortion attitudes, through a secondary analysis of 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) data, with a total of 1571 respondents, I investigate the relationship between demographic identifiers, specifically age, sex, and religious fundamentalism, and approval rates of legal abortion. Using the age variable in GSS and drawing from Generational Cohort Theory, I isolate the generational cohorts baby boomers and millennials and hypothesize that baby boomers will approve of legal abortion in fewer instances than millennials. Moreover, I create Abortion Attitude Indexes from GSS questions on abortion, which enable me to separate the questions into two groups: hard and soft abortions. Drawing from Attribution Theory, I propose that there will be an overall higher approval of hard abortions than soft abortions across both generational cohorts. Ultimately, bivariate and multivariate analysis reported that age and sex are not statistically significant predictors of abortion attitudes. However, religious fundamentalism is moderately significant. Therefore, one hypothesis is supported that the more religiously fundamentalist an individual is, the fewer instances they are likely to approve of legal abortion.

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Heiphetz

2015

Handbook of Social Psychology

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Is the Personal Always Political? A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Abortion Attitudes

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Trends in Abortion Attitudes by Race and Gender: A Reassessment Over a Four Decade Period

Do Baby Boomers Want Another Baby Boom?: A Gendered Generational Analysis of Abortion Attitudes

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