The influence of social‐developmental context and nurse visitation intervention on self‐agency change in unmarried adolescent mothers
2013
Pregnancy among unmarried adolescents has been linked to
negative personal control beliefs. In contrast, self-agency beliefs about
control over future possibilities have been linked to delay in subsequent
childbearing. In this secondary analysis, we examined factors associated
with self-agency change in 429 unmarried adolescent mothers from intervention
and control groups of a nurse home visitation study. Adolescent
mothers who participated in a sustained relationship with a nurse
made greater gains in self-agency than did control group mothers
(p ¼ .034). Adolescents with lower cognitive ability who were behind their
age-appropriate grade level in school made the greatest self-agency gains.
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