Development of Relationship Dynamics and STI/HIV Risk

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在评估中晚期青春期女性与性行为、关系形成、排他性和关系转变相关的关系特征的发展。性活动发生在人际关系发展变化的背景下，以及青春期和向年轻成年过渡期间性关系的功能和意义。 将从青春期中期（14 - 17岁）和晚期（18岁）女性中获得数据 - 20年）。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。晚期青少年将从完成27个月研究（由国家过敏和传染病研究所资助）的参与者中招募，研究与性传播感染（STI）相关的因素。 早期研究的参与者在14 - 17岁时进入。本项目拟 在今后27个月内继续密集收集关于性行为和性关系的数据。因此，这些数据将反映包括青春期中期和后期以及向青年人过渡的整个发展过程。 将使用几种类型的数据-自我管理问卷、面对面访谈。性交日记允许分析集中在特定的过渡性性交事件上（即，与新的性伴侣性交）。 “运行”的统计概念将用于评估性事件的顺序和向新伴侣的过渡。将通过潜在增长曲线分析评估关系形成、关系质量、性交频率和安全套使用的发展趋势。

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.