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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Personality patterns of couples practicing the temperature-rhythm method of

birth control.

AUTHORS

Tolor A; Rice FJ; Lanctot CA

SOURCE

Journal of Sex Research 11(2): 119-133. May 1975.

ABSTRACT

Psychological data was obtained from 1009 couples located in 5 countries who were practicing the temperature-

rhythm method of birth control. In the U.S., survey instruments were distributed to 160 couples by mail with a 58%

(92) return rate of completed questionnaires. The educational attainment of both men and women exceeded senior

high school. Most wives were not gainfully employed, and 87% of the wives indicated that religious beliefs were

considered important. The average couple had employed the rhythm method for 4 years and 9 months at the time of

the survey. Independently, both husbands and wives completed a Byrne's Revised Repression-Sensitization scale,

Rotter's I-E scale, and Attitude Toward Sex scale, a Reaction to the Temperature-Rhythm Method scale, and a sexual

behavior inventory. Data indicated that the rhythm method was acceptable despite difficulties with periods of

abstinence, with 84% regarding abstinence as relatively difficult or very diffiucult. Other results indicated that there

was a relatively low response concordance between husbands and wives, and that couples who had pregnancies

with the method or had abandoned the method had more liberal sexual attitudes than those who did not have

pregnancies and continued the method. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3043-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Personality patterns of couples practicing the temperature-

rhythm method of birth control.", is(are) Tolor A; Rice FJ; Lanctot CA. The source of this article is "Journal of Sex

Research 11(2): 119-133. May 1975.". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT7T 3043-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 33043

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