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Parent-adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescent Cognitive Processes on Sexual Risk Among European American Female Adolescents

Author : Nicole Melinda Stanoff

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Page : 114 pages

File Size : 18,92 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Communication and sex

ISBN : 9781109711196

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This study investigated the relationship between mother-adolescent sexual communication and adolescents' engagement of sexual behavior among a sample of 2,669 European American female adolescents, ages 13 to 18 years, and their mothers, from the first Wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Communication was assessed by the frequency that mothers discussed the negative consequences of intercourse with their daughters, one year prior to engagement of sexual risk. Additional family factors including mothers' knowledge of adolescent dating, family structure, and socioeconomic status were examined on the effectiveness of sexual communication and pregnancy risk. In addition to maternal influence, this study acknowledged the importance of adolescent predictors on sexual risk, including adolescents' dating experience, decision making, and awareness of the negative consequences of sexual intercourse. This study also determined if decision making/awareness of sexual consequences mediated the relationship between communication and pregnancy risk. Finally, the moderating effects of adolescents' age and mother-daughter closeness were examined in the associations between communication and sexual risk, and between decision making/awareness and sexual risk. Sexual communication influenced engagement of sexual risk. However, contrary to the hypothesis, communication around sexual risk contributed to adolescents' increased engagement of intercourse, and was ineffective in increasing condom use. Regarding adolescent predictors, decision making and awareness of sexual consequences decreased the likelihood of sexual risk, and decision-making partially mediated the relationship between communication and intercourse. There was no moderation of age or mother-daughter relationship quality in the above associations, indicating that mother and adolescent predictors had similar effects for younger and older adolescents, and across groups of mothers/adolescents who reported low and high levels of closeness. These findings suggest that discussing the negative consequences of intercourse does not prevent adolescents' engagement in sexual behavior, and adolescents may interpret this style of communication as controlling and dramatic, and rebel against parents' advice by becoming sexually active. Furthermore, adolescents' cognitive skills and ability to recognize consequences of sex played an important role in deterring sexual engagement. Thus, adolescent predictors may be more of a protective factor against engagement in sexual risk above and beyond that of maternal influence.



The Roles of Parental Involvement and Parent-adolescent Communication in Adolescent Sexuality

Author : Jennifer Lynn Fitzharris

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Page : 198 pages

File Size : 12,1 MB

Release : 2000

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Various influences on adolescent sexuality have been studied in the past. Previous research suggests that parents can be instrumental in an adolescent's decision to delay sexual intercourse. Past research suggests that parent-adolescent communication about sex is also associated with delayed sexual intercourse by adolescents. However, how parents are involved as well as the content of the communication process have not been studied at length. Therefore, focus groups of middle class, European American male and female adolescents and their parents were conducted. Their comments were used to determine how parents are involved in the sexual socialization of their children as well as to shed light on the content and process of communication between adolescents and parents about sex. Findings suggest that parents are influential through role modeling and monitoring of activities. Results also indicate that little communication is taking place between adolescents and parents regarding sex. Ideas are presented as to why communication is lacking along with ideas on how to broach the subject.









Parent-teen Communication about Sex

Author : Helen W. Wilson

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Page : pages

File Size : 39,23 MB

Release : 2005

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Adolescents in psychiatric treatment are especially vulnerable to engage in sexual behavior that puts them at risk of HIV. They are more likely than other teens to be sexually active, more likely to have multiple partners, and less likely to use condoms (Arrufo, Gottlieb, Webb, & Neville, 1994; Brown, Danovsky et al., 1997; DiClemente & Ponton, 1993; Donenberg et al., 2001). Thus, understanding the factors related to high-risk sexual behavior among adolescents in psychiatric care is an important step in developing prevention and intervention programs to impede the spread of HIV among teenagers. Because adolescent sexual behavior takes place in a psychosocial context that includes family, partner, and intrapsychic influences, this study assessed links between parent-teen sexual communication, adolescent attitudes about negotiating risk situations with partners, and risky sexual behavior. Parent-teen communication about sex and HIV-risk was assessed through a videotaped discussion of fictional vignettes coded by a diverse team of raters. Adolescent partner negotiation attitudes and risky sexual behavior were obtained through self-report. Latent variable Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) tested a model linking three dimensions of parent-teen communication quality (positive quality, negative quality, instrumental quality) indirectly to adolescent sexual risk-taking through association with adolescents' attitudes about negotiating sexual situations with partners. An alternate model including direct links between parent communication and risky sexual behavior was also tested. Multiple regressions tested the moderating effects of age, gender, ethnicity, and symptoms of depression and conduct disorder. Results indicated that partner negotiation attitudes were negatively associated with sexual risk-taking, but parent-teen communication was not associated with partner negotiation attitudes or with risky sex. The relationship between partner negotiation attitudes and risky sex was only significant for older teens, and positive parent-teen communication was associated with increased sexual risk-taking for teens with lower symptoms of depression. Findings from this study support implementation of interventions to strengthen partner negotiation skills and attitudes among teens in psychiatric treatment. Findings also suggest that the relationship between parent-teen communication quality and risky sex may not exist or may be different for families affected by psychiatric problems.



Adolescent Sexual Behavior in the Digital Age

Author : Fabian Saleh

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 401 pages

File Size : 45,93 MB

Release : 2014-04-28

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0199357978

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The nexus between the digital revolution and adolescent sexual behavior has posed significant challenges to mental health practitioners, attorneys, and educators. These digital technologies may facilitate dangerous behaviors and serious consequences for some youth. Adolescent Sexual Development in the Digital Age considers adolescent sexual behavior in both clinical and legal contexts and provides a basis for clinicians, legal professionals, educators, policy makers, parents and the general public to understand the impact that technology has on human growth and development. The book's contributing authors are leading authorities in adolescent development, law, and ethics, fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue within the text. New technology poses many opportunities for both normal and risky sexual behavior in youth; including "sexting," social networking, cyber-sexual harassment, commercial exploitation of children, and child pornography. Beyond just cataloging the various technologies impacting sexual behavior, this volume offers guidance and strategies for addressing the issues created by the digital age.



Rethinking Positive Adolescent Female Sexual Development

Author : Lisa M. Diamond

Publisher : Jossey-Bass

Page : 108 pages

File Size : 23,67 MB

Release : 2006-07-18

Category : Education

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This volume provides thoughtful and diverse perspectives on female adolescent sexuality. These perspectives integrate biological, cultural, and interpersonal influences on adolescent girls' sexuality, and highlight the importance of using multiple methods to investigate sexual ideation and experience. Traditional portrayals cast adolescent females as sexual gatekeepers whose primary task is to fend off boys' sexual overtures and set aside their own sexual desires in order to reduce their risks for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Yet an increasing number of thoughtful and constructive critiques have challenged this perspective, arguing for more sensitive, in-depth, multimethod investigations into the positive meanings of sexuality for adolescent girls that will allow us to conceptualize (and, ideally, advocate for) healthy sexual-developmental trajectories. Collectively, authors of this volume take up this movement and chart exciting new directions for the next generation of developmental research on adolescent female sexuality. This is the 112th volume of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, a journal published quarterly by Jossey-Bass.



Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Childbearing

Author : Laurie Schwab Zabin

Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 18,89 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Family & Relationships

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The topic of adolescent sexual behavior and childbearing at once entails multiple issues related to sexual activity, development, and parenting--each with its own sweeping consequences. Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Childbearing integrates current findings to provide a comprehensive approach to this topic by examining research from diverse perspectives. Discussions of the biological, sociocultural, and interpersonal forces and influences impinging on adolescents are thoughtfully delivered--and patterns of sexual activity, contraceptive use, abortion, single-parenthood, adolescent relationships, and prenatal care are carefully delineated. Interventions to prevent adolescent pregnancy are also provided, making this a resource that yields a powerful statement of the issues for research and social policy. "This is a book that should find a place in the working libraries of all persons interested in adolescent sexuality and pregnancy prevention." --Journal of Perinatology



Female Adolescent Sexuality

Author : Ann Kathryn Mack

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Page : 144 pages

File Size : 44,78 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Communication in families

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