Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health?

BMC Women's Health

Table 4 Relationship between Agency, Ideal age at childbirth and attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control

	Ideal age at childbirth (β)		Attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control (OR)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Standardized scale of agency	0.39***	0.23**	1.25***	1.18***
Older and Urban (ref) Younger and rural Younger and urban		-2.32 -1.77		0.12* 0.07*
Household asset score		0.21***		1.01
Female-headed household No (ref) Yes		0.39**		1.27**
Literacy status of household head Not literate (ref) Literate		0.51*		1.00
Caregiver’s social norm		0.09**		1.12***
Sample size	2,658	2,641	3,028	3,010
Adjusted/Pseudo R2	0.0072	0.0403	0.0081	0.0426

Note: The table shows the results of the bivariate (model 1) and multivariate (model 2) relationship between standardized agency scale and the two SRH outcomes- ideal age at childbirth and attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control of adolescent behaviors. Control variables included in the models are household asset score, literacy status of the household head, living in a female-headed household; caregiver social norms (didn’t add caregiver gender attitudes because it highly strongly correlated with norms (r = .92), combined variables for age and location (young & rural, young & urban and old & urban). The R² for the logistic regression models is the pseudo R² .*p < .05 **p < .001 ***p < .0001

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