Parent communication and sexual risk among African Americans
Parent communication and sexual risk among African Americans
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DOI：
10.1177/0193945906297374
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发表时间：
2007-10-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Montgomery, Arlene J.
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作者：
Hutchinson, M. Katherine;Montgomery, Arlene J.
非裔美国青少年和年轻人不成比例地经历不良的性健康结果，包括艾滋病毒、其他性传播感染和意外怀孕。尽管非裔美国人的多样性，许多性风险的研究仅限于市中心和诊所的样本。本研究的目的是探讨父母-青少年性风险沟通对488名来自历史上黑人大学的非洲裔美国大学生的性风险态度、信念和行为的影响，并记录父母-青少年性风险沟通量表（PTSRC-III）在与这一人群一起使用时的心理测量学特性。PTSRC-III在所有四个家长-青少年沟通二元组类别（例如，母亲-儿子，母亲-女儿，父亲-儿子，父亲-笑声）。PTSRC与学生报告的更保守的性态度和信仰以及更容易与伴侣进行性交流有关。有母亲的PTSRC也与女学生中较少的性风险行为和怀孕有关。
African American adolescents and young adults disproportionately experience adverse sexual health outcomes, including HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy. Despite the diversity of the African American population, many studies of sexual risk are limited to inner-city and clinic samples. The purpose was to examine the influence of parent-teen sexual risk communication on the sexual risk attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of 488 African American college students from a historically Black university and document the psychometric properties of the Parent-Teen Sexual Risk Communication Scale (PTSRC-III) when used with this population. The PTSRC-III demonstrated excellent internal reliability and construct validity across all four parent-teen communication dyad categories (e.g., mother-son, mother-daughter, father-son, father-laughter). PTSRC was associated with students' reports of more conservative sexual attitudes and beliefs and greater perceived ease of sexual communication with partners. PTSRC with mothers was also associated with fewer sexual risk behaviors and pregnancies among the female students.