Hope, Self-Efficacy, and Crushed Dreams: Exploring How Adolescent Girls’ Future Aspirations Relate to Marriage and Childbearing in Rural Mozambique
Packer C, Ridgeway K, Lenzi R, González-Calvo L, Moon T, Green A, Burke H. Hope, Self-Efficacy, and Crushed Dreams: Exploring How Adolescent Girls’ Future Aspirations Relate to Marriage and Childbearing in Rural Mozambique. Journal Of Adolescent Research 2020, 35: 579-604. DOI: 10.1177/0743558419897385.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAdolescent girlsIndividual-level protective factorsLongitudinal qualitative designFuture aspirationsBehavioral competenceSustainable economic opportunitiesProtective factorsExternal assetsGirlsIntervention evaluationRural MozambiqueQualitative designAge 18CompetenceChild marriageDevelopment lensEconomic opportunitiesDepth interviewsInterventionEarly marriageGoalMarriageHopeConstructsContraceptive access