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Gender role nad religion as Predictors of attitude toward abortion in Croatia, Slovenia, the Czech Rebublic and United States

Since socialism's decline, abortion has become a divisive political issue in East-Central Europe, just as it is in the United States. Questionnaires administred to college students in Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and U.S. between 1991-94, assessed the importance of religious identification, degree of religious feelings and participation, desired number of children, and gender-role attitudes as predictors of approval of abortion for reasons of personal choice. Slovene students were the most liberal on approval and gender-role attitudes. Multiple regression indicated that these variables best predicted level of approval of abortion in Slovenia. The strong link between gender-role attitude and abortion approval that emerged in the Slovene -1993 data is discussed in relation to the changing social and political contexts.

gender role attitudes; abortion; multiple regression; questionnaire; survey

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