MASS MEDIA AND ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL HEALTH

描述(改编自申请者摘要)：美国青少年 各州仍然是青少年怀孕率最高的州之一 性传播疾病的发病率是后工业世界中最高的。 大众媒体被指责为日益严重的性病的罪魁祸首。然而， 关于媒体描述如何影响时态的性信念和 行为。这项为期五年的项目是首批以人口为基础的项目之一 关于青少年接触色情内容之间的联系的调查 媒体及其性信仰和性行为。该项目以媒体为基础 一种实践模型，该模型假设青少年必须在 他们现在可以使用媒体。因此，并不是所有的青少年都会拥有同样的 “节食”的性媒体内容，所有人都不会受到同样的影响。 数据将分五个阶段收集：第一，所有7年级和8年级的学生 (约3000人)就读于北卡罗来纳州中部的9所中学将 填写一份关于他们使用大众媒体的自填式问卷。 其次，青少年在该媒体上最常使用的内容是 衡量他们的性媒体饮食--每个青少年花在关注 媒体上的色情内容。第三，(按种族和性别)分层随机 完成校内媒体问卷的1000名学生的样本 关于他们对大众媒体的使用。第二，青少年内容最多 经常参加七种不同的媒体，包括电视，电影， 杂志、书籍、互联网等将被收集并分析是否存在风险 和健康的性爱描述。这是第一次将性爱内容 对青少年参与的一系列媒体进行了评估。时间 每个青少年在每种媒介上的花费将按媒介加权 创建一个衡量他们的性媒体饮食的指标--每个青少年花费的时间 关注媒体上的色情内容。第三，分层(按种族和 性别)从在校完成学业的1000名学生中随机抽样 媒体问卷将在他们的家中就他们的性行为进行采访 使用计算机辅助面试系统的知识、信念和行为 以确保隐私和保密。两年后，在第四阶段和第五阶段 该项目中，1000名学生将在家中接受重新面试，并 另一个媒体内容样本将被分析，以评估媒体饮食和 性观念和性行为也发生了变化。纵向和全面性 这项研究的设计将提供关于如何 大众传媒影响着青少年的性信仰和性行为。

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.