Sexy media matter: Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts black and white adolescents' sexual behavior
Sexy media matter: Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts black and white adolescents' sexual behavior
复制标题
DOI：
10.1542/peds.2005-1406
复制
发表时间：
2006-04-01
期刊：
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Jackson, C
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Brown, JD;L'Engle, KL;Jackson, C
目标。方法：对北卡罗来纳州中部14所中学的1017名黑人和白人青少年进行了一项家庭纵向调查，以评估早期青少年使用的4种大众媒体(电视、电影、音乐和杂志)中的性行为内容是否可以预测中期青少年的性行为。每个青少年在12至14岁时接受基线采访，两年后再次使用计算机辅助自访(音频计算机辅助自访)以确保保密。通过将4种媒体的使用频率与青少年经常使用的每个电视节目、电影、音乐专辑和杂志中的性内容的频率进行加权，构建了一个新的衡量青少年性媒体饮食(SMD)的指标。结果：在12至14岁的性媒体饮食中，排名前五分之一的白人青少年在14至16岁时发生性行为的可能性是那些处于SMD最低五分之一的青少年的2.2倍，即使在引入了包括基线性行为在内的其他一些相关因素后也是如此。在控制了其他更具预测性的因素后，这种关系对黑人青少年没有统计学意义，包括父母对青少年性行为的不赞成和被认为是宽容的朋友性规范。结论：暴露在音乐、电影、电视和杂志中的性内容加速了白人青少年的性行为，并增加了他们早期性行为的风险。黑人青少年似乎更多地受到父母的期望和朋友的性行为的看法的影响，而不是他们在媒体上的所见所闻。
OBJECTIVE. To assess over time whether exposure to sexual content in 4 mass media ( television, movies, music, and magazines) used by early adolescents predicts sexual behavior in middle adolescence.METHODS. An in-home longitudinal survey of 1017 black and white adolescents from 14 middle schools in central North Carolina was conducted. Each teen was interviewed at baseline when he or she was 12 to 14 years old and again 2 years later using a computer-assisted self interview ( audio computer-assisted self-interview) to ensure confidentiality. A new measure of each teen's sexual media diet (SMD) was constructed by weighting the frequency of use of 4 media by the frequency of sexual content in each television show, movie, music album, and magazine the teen used regularly.RESULTS. White adolescents in the top quintile of sexual media diet when 12 to 14 years old were 2.2 times more likely to have had sexual intercourse when 14 to 16 years old than those who were in the lowest SMD quintile, even after a number of other relevant factors, including baseline sexual behavior, were introduced. The relationship was not statistically significant for black adolescents after controlling for other factors that were more predictive, including parental disapproval of teen sex and perceived permissive peer sexual norms.CONCLUSIONS. Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines accelerates white adolescents' sexual activity and increases their risk of engaging in early sexual intercourse. Black teens appear more influenced by perceptions of their parents' expectations and their friends' sexual behavior than by what they see and hear in the media.