ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR: FAMILY & NON-FAMILY INFLUENCES

社会科学家和政策制定者都很关注 青春期性行为的决定因素和后果。作为对此的回应 令人担忧的是，最近的几个项目收集了大量关于 青春期性行为及相关变量。这项提议要求得到支持 使用Unique分析现有的、高质量的青少年性行为数据 方法论和新制定的概念框架。 来自334对兄弟姐妹的数据包含在以下地址收集的ADSEX数据中 北卡罗来纳大学在五次浪潮中。除了兄弟姐妹 配对、友谊配对和同学配对也可以从 这些数据。这些联系提供了广泛的环境来源 寻找青少年先证者的可能解释 性行为。家庭环境、社会环境、学校环境 环境可以用等价分析和互补分析来研究。 具体目标包括在这些环境中的每个环境中搜索 青春期性行为的前驱因素。的纵向性质。 数据集可用于将选择与同行影响分开； 在家族内，数据集的性质可以用来分隔公共 来自独特的环境影响的环境。 远景目标包括制定更完整的 对环境对青少年性行为影响的认识 供社会科学家和政策制定者使用。这样的理解 将有助于确定适当的领域，青少年性行为和 青春期怀孕计划应该是有针对性的。

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.