MASS MEDIA AND ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL HEALTH

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：美国的青少年 各州的青少年怀孕率仍然最高， 性传播疾病的发病率是后工业化世界最高的。 大众媒体一直被指责为越来越多的性病。然而，在这方面， 关于媒体报道如何影响紧张的性信仰， 行为。这个为期五年的项目是第一个以人口为基础的 调查青少年接触性内容与 媒体和他们的性信仰和行为。该项目基于媒体 实践模式，假设青少年必须在一系列 媒体现在对他们来说。因此，所有的青少年将不会有相同的 “饮食”的性媒体内容，所有不会受到同样的方式。 数据将分五个阶段收集：第一，所有七年级和八年级的学生 （约3,000人）就读于北卡罗来纳州中部的9所中学， 完成一份关于他们使用大众媒体的自填问卷。 第二，青少年最常在这种媒介上创造的内容， 衡量他们的性媒体饮食-每个青少年花费的时间参加 媒体中的性内容。第三，分层（按种族和性别）随机 1,000名完成校内媒体调查问卷的学生样本 他们对大众媒体的使用。第二，青少年最喜欢的内容 经常参加七个不同的媒体，包括电视，电影， 杂志、书籍、互联网等将被收集和分析， 和健康的性描写。这是第一次性内容的 对青少年接触的各种媒体进行了评估。的时间 每一个青少年花费与每一个媒体，然后将加权的媒体， 创造了一个衡量他们的性媒体饮食的标准--每个青少年花在 关注媒体中的性内容第三，分层（按种族和 随机抽取了1，000名在校学生， 媒体将在他们家中进行问卷调查，了解他们的性行为。 知识，信念和行为使用计算机辅助面试系统 以确保隐私和保密性。两年后，在第四和第五阶段， 在这个项目中，1,000名学生将在他们的家中再次接受采访， 另一个媒体内容样本将被分析，以评估媒体饮食和 性观念和性行为发生了变化。纵向和全面 这项研究的设计将提供最新的理解， 大众传媒影响青少年的性观念和性行为。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): Adolescents in the United States continue to have the highest rates of teen pregnancy and one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the post-industrial world. The mass media have been have been blamed for increasingly STD's. However, little is known about how media depictions affect tense's sexual beliefs and behaviors. This five-year project is one of the first population-based investigations of the link between teens' exposure to sexual content in the media and their sexual beliefs and behaviors. The project is based on the Media Practice Model that assumes that adolescents must choose among the array of media now available to them. Consequently, all teens will not have the same "diet" of sexual media content, and all will not be affected in the same ways. Data will be gathered in five phases: First, all 7th and 8th grade students (about 3,000) enrolled in nine middle schools in central North Carolina will complete a self-administered questionnaire about their use of the mass media. Second, the content the teens most frequently in that medium to create a measure of their sexual media diet -- the time each teen spends attending to sexual content in the media. Third, a stratified (by race and gender) random sample of 1,000 of the students who completed the in-school media questionnaire about their use of the mass media. Second, the content the teens most frequently attend to in seven different media including television, movies, magazines, books, the internet, etc. will be collected and analyzed for risky and health sexual portrayals. This is the first time the sexual content of the media has been assessed across the array of media teens attend to. The time each teen spends with each medium than will then be weighted by medium to create a measure of their sexual media diet -- the time each teen spends attending to sexual content in the media. Third, a stratified (by race and gender) random sample of 1,000 of the students who completed the in school media questionnaire will be interviewed in their homes about their sexual knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors using a computer-assisted interviewing system to ensure privacy and confidentiality. Two years later, in Phases 4 and 5 of the project, the 1,000 students will be reinterviewed in their homes and another sample of media content will be analyzed to assess how media diets and sexual attitudes and behaviors have changed. The longitudinal and comprehensive design of this study will provide the most current understanding of how the mass media affect the sexual beliefs and behaviors of adolescents.