Participants
Participants were recruited from psychology classes at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and through posts on social media. Only participants who are 18 years old or older, female, and college students were eligible to participate in the study. The initial sample consisted of 177 participants. Six participants were removed because they were male, two were removed for identifying as nonbinary, and two were removed for answering the attention check question incorrectly. Finally, as our goal was to examine younger women’s attitudes toward potential pregnancy and because previous literature considered women under 30 to be young women, 13 participants were removed because they were above the age of 30. The final sample consisted of 154 women. The majority of the participants were Hispanic (49.6%) or White (49%), heterosexual (70.9%), and moderate (22%) or liberal/very liberal (38.3%). Additionally, the majority of the participants were single (42.6%) or in a committed relationship (40.4%). Data was collected in March 2022.