ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR: FAMILY & NON-FAMILY INFLUENCES

社会科学家和政策制定者都很关注 青少年性行为的决定因素和后果。 响应于 关注，最近的几个项目已经收集了广泛的数据， 青少年性行为和相关变量。 这一提议要求得到支持 分析现有的，高质量的青少年性行为数据， 方法和新制定的概念框架。 来自334对兄弟姐妹的数据包含在ADSEX数据中， 北卡罗来纳州的大学。 除了兄弟姐妹 还可以从以下各项构建配对、友谊配对和同学配对 这些数据。 这些联系提供了广泛的环境来源， 寻找可能的解释的前因青少年 性欲 家庭环境、社会环境、学校 可以使用等效和互补分析来研究环境。 具体目标包括在这些环境中搜索 青少年性行为的前因 的纵向性质 数据集可用于将选择与同伴影响分开; 在数据集的家庭性质内，可用于分离常见的 独特的环境影响。 长期目标包括制定一个更完整的 了解环境对青少年性行为的影响 供社会科学家和政策制定者使用。 这种理解 将有助于确定青少年性行为的适当场所， 应指导青少年怀孕方案。

Both social scientists and policy makers have been concerned about determinants and consequences of adolescent sexuality. In response to that concern, several recent projects have collected extensive data on adolescent sexuality and related variables. This proposal requests support to analyze existing, high quality adolescent sexuality data using unique methodologies and a newly developed conceptual framework. Data from 334 sibling pairs are contained in the ADSEX data collected at the University of North Carolina in five waves. In addition to the sibling pairs, friendship pairs and classmate pairs can also be constructed from these data. These links give a broad range of environmental sources to search for possible explanations of the antecedents of adolescent sexuality. The family environment, the social environment, and the school environment can be studied using equivalent and complementary analyses. The specific goals include searching each of these environments for the antecedents to adolescent sexual behavior. The longitudinal nature of the dataset can be used to separate selection from peer influences; and the within family nature of the dataset can be used to separate common environmental from unique environmental influences. The long-range goals include the development of a more complete understanding of the environmental influences on adolescent sexual behavior for use by both social scientists and policymakers. Such understanding will help identify the appropriate arenas to which adolescent sexuality and adolescent pregnancy programs should be directed.