A social contagion model of adolescent sexual behavior: explaining race differences.
A social contagion model of adolescent sexual behavior: explaining race differences.
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青少年性行为的社会传染模型：解释种族差异。
DOI：
10.1080/19485565.1994.9988856
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1994
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Rodgers,JL
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作者：
Rowe,DC;Rodgers,JL
在美国，黑人青少年第一次性交的年龄总是比白色青少年早。对这一发现的心理社会学解释并不成功。我们提出了一个“流行病”模型，结合社会传染（心理社会过程）和青春期成熟（生物过程）。这种流行病模式允许同龄青少年之间以及年轻和年长的青少年之间进行社会接触。该模型在统计学上很好地拟合了白人的性行为的实际增长曲线;它对黑人的拟合度没有那么好。从计算机模拟分析，我们得出的结论是，青春期成熟可能是更重要的占在性交开始的种族差异比以前认为的。
Black adolescents in the United States consistently report an earlier age of first intercourse than White adolescents. Purely psychosocial explanations of this finding have been less than successful. We propose an “epidemic” model that combines social contagion (a psychosocial process) and pubertal maturation (a biological process). This epidemic model permits social contacts among adolescents of the same age and also among younger and older adolescents. The model statistically fit the actual growth curve of sexuality well for Whites; its fit was not as good for Blacks. From computer simulation analyses, we concluded that pubertal maturation may be more important in accounting for the racial difference in the onset of sexual intercourse than previously thought.