Development of Relationship Dynamics and STI/HIV Risk

描述(由申请人提供)：这项拟议的研究旨在评估中晚期青春期女性的性行为、关系形成、排他性和关系转变的关系特征的发展。性活动发生在人际关系的发展变化以及青春期和青壮年过渡期间性关系的功能和意义的背景下。 数据将从中年(14-17岁)和青春期晚期(18岁)女性那里获得 -20年)注册时。较年轻的参与者将通过自我管理进行评估 问卷调查、面对面访谈和每日日记，为期27个月。晚年青少年将从完成一项为期27个月的性传播感染(STI)相关因素研究(由国家过敏和传染病研究所资助)的参与者中招募。 早期研究的参与者年龄在14-17岁之间。目前的项目建议 继续密集收集关于性行为和性关系的数据，再持续27个月。因此，这些数据将反映包括青春期中后期和青春期过渡的整个发展阶段。 将使用几种类型的数据--自我管理问卷、面对面访谈。性交日记允许分析重点放在特定的过渡性交事件上(即与新性伴侣的性交)。统计学的“奔跑”概念将被用来评估性事件的顺序和向新伴侣的转变。在关系形成、关系质量、性交频率和避孕套使用方面的发展趋势将通过潜在增长曲线分析来评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research is designed to evaluate the development of relationship characteristics associated with sexual behaviors, relationship formation, exclusivity and relationship transition among middle and late adolescent women. Sexual activity occurs in the context of developmental changes in interpersonal relationships as well as the functions and meanings of sexual relationships within adolescence and in the transition to young adulthood. Data will be obtained from middle (ages 14 - 17 years) and late adolescent women (ages 18 - 20 years) at enrollment. The younger participants will be evaluated via self-administered questionnaire, face-to-face interview and daily diary for a period of 27-months. Late adolescents will be recruited from participants completing a 27-month study (funded by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases) of factors associated with sexually transmitted infections (STI). Participants of the earlier study entered at ages 14 -17 years. The current project proposes to continue intensive data collection on sexual behavior and sexual relationships for an additional 27- month period. Thus, these data will reflect a full span of development encompassing middle and late adolescence and the transition into young adulthood. Several types of data - self-administer questionnaire, face-to-face interview - will be used. Coital diaries allow analytic focus on specific transitional coital events (i.e., coitus with a new sex partner). The statistical concept of 'runs' will be used to assess sequences of sexual events and transitions to new partners. Developmental trends in relationship formation, relationship quality, coital frequency and condom use will be assessed by latent growth curve analysis.