ADOLESCENT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN TWO ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS: A MULTISYSTEM PERSPECTIVE.

From: Adolescence | Date: June 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Adolescents are at high risk for a number of negative health consequences associated with early and unsafe sexual activity, such as infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as unintended pregnancy. In the present study, a multisystem model was applied to one adolescent sexual behavior, penile-vaginal intercourse. Nine hundred seven Black and Hispanic adolescents (aged 14 to 17 years) and their mothers were interviewed. Factors from three systems (self, family, and extrafamilial) that are influential in the lives of adolescents were ...

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