Communication Style: a clue to unplanned pregnancy.
This investigation compared the communication patterns of women who had never been pregnant with those of women who had had two or more unplanned pregnancies. A six-part questionnaire assessing communication skills, social orientation and involvement, self-disclosure, physical accessibility and verbal defensiveness was administered to fifty-six paid subjects from family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Significant differences in communication skills, depth of self-disclosure, physical accessibility, and verbal defensiveness were found. The study suggests that the communicative inadequacies in the women with multiple unplanned pregnancies may be critical factors in contraceptive failure.
D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D003142:Communication; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D003710:Demography; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014110:Touch; D014705:Verbal Behavior