Social and psychological correlates of pregnancy resolution among adolescent women: a review.
A review of the recent literature on pregnancy resolution among unmarried adolescent women suggests that those who seek and go through with an abortion do not comprise a "special" population, but are similar to their age mates in many of their social and psychological characteristics. Previous research does suggest, however, that teenage abortion patients differ from their term counterparts on a number of significant variables.
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors