Mass media as a sexual super peer for early maturing girls
Mass media as a sexual super peer for early maturing girls
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2004.06.003
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
L'Engle, KL
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作者：
Brown, JD;Halpern, CT;L'Engle, KL
目的：调查大众媒体(电视、电影、音乐和杂志)是否可能成为比同龄人更早进入青春期的女孩的超级同龄人。多项研究表明，较早的青春期时间与较早过渡到第一次性行为之间存在显著的关联。青春期是否也会激发人们对被视为允许进行性行为的性媒体内容的兴趣？方法：从北卡罗来纳州中部的公立中学招募的白人和非裔美国女性青少年(n=471；平均年龄13.7岁)在家中完成了两项自我管理的调查，内容包括青春期状况、对各种媒体的兴趣和接触以及对性媒体内容的看法。结果：无论年龄或种族，早熟女孩比晚熟女孩对电影、电视和杂志中的性内容以及音乐中的性内容更感兴趣。较早成熟的女孩也更有可能听音乐和阅读带有性内容的杂志，更有可能看限制级电影，并将她们在媒体上看到的信息解读为对青少年发生性行为的认可。结论：大众媒体可能是一种性超级同行，特别是对较早成熟的女孩来说。鉴于青少年关注的大多数媒体缺乏性健康信息，这些发现令人担忧。应该鼓励媒体提供更多的性健康内容，青少年服务提供者和医生应该意识到，成熟较早的女孩可能对性信息感兴趣。(C)2005年青少年医学会。版权所有。
Purpose: To investigate the possibility that the mass media (television, movies, music, and magazines) serve as a kind of super peer for girls who enter puberty sooner than their age-mates. Multiple studies have demonstrated significant associations between earlier pubertal timing and earlier transition to first sex. Does puberty also stimulate interest in sexual media content that is seen as giving permission to engage in sexual behavior?Methods: White and African-American female adolescents (n = 471; average age 13.7 years) recruited from public middle schools in central North Carolina completed two self-administered surveys in their homes about their pubertal status, interest in and exposure to various media, and perceptions of sexual media content.Results: Earlier maturing girls reported more interest than later maturing girls in seeing sexual content in movies, television, and magazines, and in listening to sexual content in music, regardless of age or race. Earlier maturing girls were also more likely to be listening to music and reading magazines with sexual content, more likely to see R-rated movies, and to interpret the messages they saw in the media as approving of teens having sexual intercourse.Conclusions: The mass media may be serving as a kind of sexual super peer, especially for earlier maturing girls. Given the lack of sexual health messages in most media adolescents attend to, these findings give cause for concern. The media should be encouraged to provide more sexually healthy content, and youth service providers and physicians should be aware that earlier maturing girls may be interested in sexual information. (c) 2005 Society for Adolescent Medicine. All rights reserved.