title: Locus of control, premarital sexual exposure, marriage and conception among Japanese women.
abstract: "This paper examined the relationship between locus of control and such variables as unmarried woman's sexual activity, wife's experience of premarital conception, female marriage probability, post marital contraception and first-conception probability in present-day Japan...[using data from the 1987] Ninth Japanese National Fertility Survey....[The findings] contradict the general prediction that the internal locus of control is associated with well-planned behaviours...." (SUMMARY IN JPN)
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otani
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001519:Behavior; D003267:Contraception; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005298:Fertility; D007086:Illegitimacy; D007564:Japan; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011336:Probability; D012106:Research; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Asia; Behavior; Contraception; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Asia; Family Planning; Fertility; Japan; Population; Population Dynamics; Premarital Pregnancy; Premarital Sex Behavior; Probability; Reproductive Behavior; Research Methodology; Sex Behavior; Statistical Studies; Studies