The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Peer Acceptance
The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Peer Acceptance
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DOI：
10.1177/019027250907200205
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Staff, Jeremy
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作者：
Kreager, Derek A.;Staff, Jeremy
在当代美国社会，人们普遍认为男女在性行为方面有不同的标准。根据性的双重标准，男孩和男人会因为异性性接触而受到奖励和赞扬，而女孩和女人则会因为类似的行为而受到贬损和侮辱。尽管公众普遍认为，关于性别双重标准的研究结果仍然模棱两可，定性研究和早期的态度调查普遍发现了双重标准的证据，而最近的实验小插图设计往往没有找到类似的结果。在本研究中，我们通过直接测量性放纵青少年的社会地位来扩展先前的研究。我们使用从国家青少年健康纵向研究中收集的数据，将青少年自我报告的性伴侣数量与同伴接受度的网络测量联系起来。结果表明，终生性伴侣与同伴地位之间的关系因性别而异，例如性伴侣数量较多与男孩的同伴接受度呈正相关，而与女孩的同伴接受度呈负相关。此外，男孩性行为与同伴接纳之间的关系受社会经济来源的调节；据预测，来自弱势家庭的性宽容男孩比来自优势家庭的性宽容男孩拥有更多的友谊。因此，我们的研究结果支持了青少年性双重标准的存在，并表明性规范因性别和社会经济来源而异。
The belief that women and men are held to different standards of sexual conduct is pervasive in contemporary American society. According to the sexual double standard, boys and men are rewarded and praised for heterosexual sexual contacts, whereas girls and women are derogated and stigmatized for similar behaviors. Although widely held by the general public, research findings on the sexual double standard remain equivocal, with qualitative studies and early attitudinal surveys generally finding evidence of the double standard and more recent experimental vignette designs often failing to find similar results. In this study, we extend prior research by directly measuring the social status of sexually permissive youth. We use data collected from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to relate adolescents' self-reported numbers of sexual partners to a network measure of peer acceptance. Results suggest that the association between lifetime sexual partnerships and peer status varies significantly by gender, such that greater numbers of sexual partners are positively correlated with boys' peer acceptance, but negatively correlated with girls' peer acceptance. Moreover, the relationship between boys' sexual behaviors and peer acceptance is moderated by socioeconomic origins; sexually permissive boys from disadvantaged backgrounds are predicted to have more friendships than permissive boys from more advantaged backgrounds. Our results thus support the existence of an adolescent sexual double standard and suggest that sexual norms vary by both gender and socioeconomic origins.