ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR: FAMILY AND NON-FAMILY INFLUENCES

我们请求继续支持以前资助的一个项目。 持续14个月寻找环境致病因素 青春期的性行为和变态。我们使用了高质量的数据， 区分共同环境和独特环境的概念框架 影响和分析与数据和 概念框架。我们的总体方法包括 构建反映不同共享的青少年对 环境：兄弟姐妹、同学和朋友。最强的 我们获得的结果是针对兄弟姐妹的，我们已经为他们显示了 对性取向和性变态的影响和相似性。 在我们之前的工作中，我们注意到了一些 我们数据中的缺陷--包括缺乏通用性，小 样本大小和偏差测量的限制。 在这项研究的拟议延续中，我们计划将 我们对ADSEX数据所做的工作以及对 全国青年纵向调查(NLSY)数据集，全国 包括数千个兄弟姐妹的家庭的概率样本 数据集中的对。性取向的衡量标准(弱于 在ADSEX数据中)和偏差度量(比 在ADSEX数据中)包括在NLSY数据中。 此外，我们还开发了传染性的“流行病”模型。 性行为、吸烟和饮酒的传播。另一个 目的是探索它们作为对“传播”的解释的有用性。 青少年的社会行为。 这个项目的长期目标与我们最初的提议相同： 对环境有更全面的了解 对青少年性行为和变态行为的影响。是这样的 了解将有助于确定适当的竞技场 青春期性行为和青春期怀孕研究和方案 应该解决的问题。

We request support for continuation of a previously funded project lasting 14 months searching for environmental etiologies of adolescent sexuality and deviance. We have used high-quality data, a conceptual framework separating common and unique environmental influences, and analyses that link to both the data and the conceptual framework. Our general approach has involved constructing adolescent pairs that reflect different shared environments: siblings, classmates, and friends. The strongest results we obtained were for siblings, for whom we have shown influence and similarity for both sexuality and deviance. During the course of our previous work, we have noted some deficiencies in our data -- including lack of generality, small sample sizes, and limitations in the measures of deviance. In the proposed continuation of this research, we plan to link the work we have done on the ADSEX data with additional analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) dataset, a national probability sample of households that includes thousands of sibling pairs within the dataset. Measures of sexuality (weaker than those in the ADSEX data) and measures of deviance (stronger than those in the ADSEX data) are included in the NLSY data. In addition, we have developed contagious, "epidemic" models of the transmission of onset of sexuality, smoking, and drinking. Another goal is to explore their usefulness as explanations of the "spread" of social behaviors among adolescents. The long-range goal of this project is as in our original proposal: To develop a more complete understanding of the environmental influences on adolescent sexual and deviant behavior. Such understanding will help identify the appropriate arenas to which adolescent sexuality and adolescent pregnancy research and programs should be addressed.