Parents' attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation.
Parents' attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation.
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美国家长对性教育内容的态度：与宗教信仰和政治取向的关联。
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10.1080/14681811.2022.2162871
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2024
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Choukas-Bradley,Sophia
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Hurst,JeffreyL;Widman,Laura;Brasileiro,Julia;Maheux,AnneJ;Evans-Paulson,Reina;Choukas-Bradley,Sophia
虽然大多数家长支持青少年接受以学校为基础的性教育，但家长对性教育主题的支持程度却不尽相同。保守的政治倾向和更大的宗教信仰与父母缺乏对学校性教育的支持独立相关；然而，没有研究调查过这两个因素的交集。本研究的三个目标是：1)确定特定的性教育主题如何聚集在一起形成内容区域；2)检查宗教信仰和政治取向是否与这些内容领域有独特的联系；3)考察政治取向是否会调节父母的宗教信仰与他们对特定性教育内容领域的感知重要性之间的关系。参与者是来自全国的881名美国父母。性教育主题集中在三个内容领域：事实知识（如性传播疾病传播），实用技能（如如何获得避孕套），以及快乐和身份（如性的愉悦方面）。政治上保守和更有宗教信仰的父母认为每个内容领域的重要性最低。重要的是，这些主要影响是由一个重要的相互作用所限定的：那些报告政治保守和高度宗教虔诚的父母报告说，他们认为这三个内容领域的重要性最低。
While most parents support their adolescents receiving school-based sex education, there is variability in which sex education topics receive the most support from parents. Conservative political orientation and greater religiosity have been independently associated with parents’ lack of support for school-based sex education; however, no studies have examined the intersection of these two factors. The three goals of this study were to: 1) identify how specific sexual education topics cluster together to form content areas; 2) examine if religiosity and political orientation are uniquely associated with these content areas; and 3) examine if political orientation moderates the relationship between parents’ religiosity and their perceived importance for the specific sex education content areas. Participants were a national sample of 881 US parents. The sex education topics clustered into three content areas: Factual Knowledge (e.g., STI transmission), Practical Skills (e.g., how to access condoms), and Pleasure and Identity (e.g., pleasurable aspects of sex). Politically conservative and more religious parents reported the lowest perceived importance for each content area. Importantly, these main effects were qualified by a significant interaction: parents who reported both political conservativismandhigh levels of religiosity reported the lowest perceived importance for these three content areas being taught.