Abortion Decision Study, 1975-1976 (doi:10.7910/DVN/A88SEA)

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Abortion Decision Study, 1975-1976

doi:10.7910/DVN/A88SEA

Harvard Dataverse

2007-11-28

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Gilligan, Carol, 2002, "Abortion Decision Study, 1975-1976", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A88SEA, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Abortion Decision Study, 1975-1976

doi:10.7910/DVN/A88SEA

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Gilligan, Carol

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

2002

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A88SEA

Social Sciences, Abortion

mra, 50 or fewer, Mixed, female, 13-17, 18-22, 23-29, 30-39, mixed, mixed, 1, yes, Public health, Family, Women, Moral development

This study was designed to study women's responses to real moral dilemmas with a specific focus on identity and morality. Participants included twenty-nine women who were referred to the study by abortion and pregnancy counseling services. The women were interviewed during their first trimester of pregnancy at a time when they were considering having an abortion, and again at the end of the following year. The women ranged in age from 15 to 33 and were diverse with respect to ethnic background and socioeconomic status. <br /><br /> The initial interviews were conducted in 1975 and were comprised of two parts. The first part sought to explore the decision the women faced and the ways in which making this decision affected their views of themselves and their relationships with others. In the latter part of the interview, women were asked to resolve three hypothetical moral dilemmas, developed by Kohlberg. The follow-up interviews were conducted a year later with twenty-one of the women and were similar in both format and content to the initial interview. <br /><br /> The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (interview transcripts from twenty-six women at Time 1 and twenty women at Time 2, as well as demographic information for participants; follow-up of the study participants is possible with the restriction that any contacts of the participants must be made through the contributor). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.

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1975-1976

United States

individuals

longitudinal

quota sample

interview

<b>All applications to use this dataset must be approved by Dr. Carol Gilligan (indefinitely or until deceased)<br /> The data can only be used on-site at the Murray Archive and photocopies of the data are not available</b>

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

<b>Available for on-site access only</b>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.

I will use these data solely for the purposes stated in my application to use data, detailed in a written research proposal. I will honor all agreements and conditions made between the Contributor of the Data and the study participants, and between the Contributor of the Data and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement.

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I will include a bibliographic citation acknowledging the use of these data in any publication or presentation in which these data are used. Such citations will appear in footnotes or in the reference section of any such manuscript. I understand the guideline in "How to Cite This Dataset" described in the Summary of this study.

Murray Research Archive will list my publication and manuscripts on the Archive website when I submit a bibliographic citation or title of the manuscript, and indicate the Henry A. Murray Research Archive data used. Doing this will also help Henry A. Murray Research Archive to provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources, to fulfill requirements of some memoranda of agreement, and to promote the broader exchange of information about research activities.

<b>All applications to use this dataset must be approved by Dr. Carol Gilligan (indefinitely or until deceased)<br /> The data can only be used on-site at the Murray Archive and photocopies of the data are not available<b/>

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

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00047Gilligan-Abortion-BoxCoverSheets.pdf

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Describes contents of each box of a paper data set

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00047Gilligan-Abortion-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

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Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

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00047Gilligan-Abortion-StudyDescription.pdf

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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0047Inventory.wpd

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Inventory of paper materials

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