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)