Formal operational thinking: the role of cognitive-developmental processes in adolescent decision-making about pregnancy and contraception.
The role of formal operational thinking in adolescent decision-making about pregnancy and contraception is explored through an integration of the cognitive-developmental and pregnancy-contraception literatures. The ways in which cognitive-developmental change mechanisms initiate or hinder formal thinking on pregnancy-contraception are considered, and implications for counseling pregnant adolescents are discussed.
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, Calif.
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D000293:Adolescent; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D011936:Reality Testing; D013850:Thinking