Friendships and early relationships: Links to sexual initiation among American adolescents born to young mothers
Friendships and early relationships: Links to sexual initiation among American adolescents born to young mothers
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DOI：
10.2307/3097710
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发表时间：
2002-05-01
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Neubauer, SA
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作者：
Cooksey, EC;Mott, FL;Neubauer, SA
上下文青春期前的友谊和青少年早期的约会关系对青少年的性启蒙可能会因种族和性别而异，方法：在全国青年纵向调查的参与者和他们的孩子的数据被用来配置文件的友谊和约会模式之间的一个样本的青年出生的相对年轻的母亲。Logistic回归分析研究这些模式是否预测早期性启动，以及是否有与性别和种族的差异。结果：随着青年从童年晚期到青春期中期，他们从几乎完全相同的性别，同级的朋友，有更多的关系与人谁是异性和老年人。到15-16岁时，34%的人有过性行为;黑人的比例（45%）明显高于其他人（31%）。大多数青少年在75-16岁时既没有频繁约会，也没有稳定的伴侣，尽管这种报告的普遍性与童年后期的友谊模式有关。12%的青少年在青春期早期就开始性行为，这是在约会关系之外。对于大多数亚组的研究，在青春期早期开始性交的几率与去稳定，但不与频率的datings.CONCLUSIONS：事先社交网络是一个重要的因素，在预测早期性活动。总体而言，母亲在年轻时生育的青年在青春期中期仍然缺乏性经验，但某些亚群体比其他亚群体更有可能过早开始性活动。
CONTEXT. Preadolescent friendships and early teenage dating relationships have implications for adolescent sexual initiation that may differ by race and gender,METHODS: Data on participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and their children are used to profile friendship and dating patterns among a sample of youth born to relatively young mothers. Logistic regression analyses examine whether these patterns predict early sexual initiation, and whether there are differences associated with gender and race.RESULTS:As youth moved from late childhood to midadolescence, they shifted from having almost exclusively same sex, same-grade friends to having more relationships with persons who are of the opposite sex and older. By ages 15-16, 34% had had sexual intercourse; the proportion was significantly higher among blacks (45%) than among others (31%). Most adolescents reported neither frequent dating nor a steady partner by ages 75-16, although the prevaleance of such reports was related to friendship patterns in late childhood. Twelve percent of youth who initiated sex in early adolescence did so outside of a dating relationship. For most subgroups examined, the odds of initiating intercourse during early adolescence were associated with going steady, but not with frequency of dating.CONCLUSIONS: Prior social networking is an important element in predicting early sexual activity. Overall, youth whose mothers gave birth at young ages remain sexually inexperienced into middle adolescence, but certain subgroups are more likely than others to initiate early sexual activity.