Longitudinal Patterns of Multidimensional Violence Exposure and Adolescent Early Sexual Initiation.
Longitudinal Patterns of Multidimensional Violence Exposure and Adolescent Early Sexual Initiation.
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多维暴力暴露和青少年早期性开始的纵向模式。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-023-02607-5
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Liu,Qingyang
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作者：
Vasilenko,SaraA;Wang,Xiafei;Liu,Qingyang
早期性交与性传播感染、怀孕和抑郁症状有关，延迟性交使青少年有机会练习关系技能（Coker et al.，; Harden，; Kugler等人，; Spriggs & Halpern，）.因此，了解早期性交的预测因素至关重要。先前的研究表明，暴力暴露与青少年早期开始性交有关（Abajobir等人，; Orihuela等人，).然而，大多数研究只关注单一类型的暴力暴露。此外，很少有研究考察暴力暴露的纵向模式，以确定是否存在暴力暴露可能对性行为产生最强烈影响的特定时期。在生活史和累积劣势理论的指导下，我们使用纵向潜在类别分析和来自未来家庭和儿童福祉研究的数据（N= 3，396; 51.1%女性，48.9%男性）来研究3至15岁之间多种类型暴力暴露的纵向模式与青春期早期性行为的相关性。研究结果表明，在整个童年时期经历持续的身体和情感虐待与早期性行为开始的最大流行率有关。早期遭受暴力并不总是与性行为开始的可能性更大相关;相反，早期虐待与男孩的性行为开始有更强的相关性，而童年晚期虐待与女孩的性行为开始有更强的相关性。这些研究结果表明，非常需要对性别问题有敏感认识的方案，以解决男孩和女孩性行为的独特风险因素。
Early sexual intercourse is associated with sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and depressive symptoms, and delay of intercourse allows adolescents opportunities to practice relationship skills (Coker et al., ; Harden, ; Kugler et al., ; Spriggs & Halpern, ). Thus, understanding predictors of early sexual intercourse is crucial. Prior research has suggested that violence exposure is associated with early initiation of sexual intercourse in adolescence (Abajobir et al., ; Orihuela et al., ). However, most studies have looked only at a single type of violence exposure. In addition, little research has examined longitudinal patterns of violence exposure in order to determine whether there are particular periods when the violence exposure may have the strongest impact on sexual behavior. Guided by life history and cumulative disadvantage theories, we use longitudinal latent class analysis and data from the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (N= 3,396; 51.1% female, 48.9% male) to examine how longitudinal patterns of multiple types of violence exposures across ages 3 to 15 are associated with early sexual initiation in adolescence. Findings suggest that experiencing persistent physical and emotional abuse across childhood was associated with the greatest prevalence of early sexual initiation. Early exposure to violence was not consistently associated with greater likelihood of sexual initiation; instead, early abuse was more strongly associated with sexual initiation for boys, while late childhood abuse was more strongly associated for girls. These findings suggest that gender-sensitive programs are highly needed to address unique risk factors for boys’ and girls’ sexual behaviors.