Predicting Age of Sexual Initiation: Family-Level Antecedents in Three Ethnic Groups

Autor/inn/en	Moilanen, Kristin L.; Leary, Janie M.; Watson, S. Michelle; Ottley, Jason
Titel	Predicting Age of Sexual Initiation: Family-Level Antecedents in Three Ethnic Groups
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 38 (2018) 1, S.28-49 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431615586462
Schlagwörter	Prediction; Age Differences; Sexuality; Decision Making; Path Analysis; Intervention; Prevention; Race; Ethnicity; Longitudinal Studies; National Surveys; Mothers; Gender Differences; One Parent Family; Parent Child Relationship; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorhersage; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sexualität; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Pfadanalyse; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Mother; Mutter; Geschlechterkonflikt; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	We investigated how family characteristics and experiences during early adolescence predicted timing of sexual initiation. In addition, we investigated adolescent sex and race/ethnicity as potential moderating factors. As part of the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 (CNLSY-79), 799 adolescents aged 12 to 15 years provided data at 2-year intervals between 1994 and 2010 (51.7% male; 24.5% Hispanic, 36.5% African American, 38.9% European American); their mothers also provided data in 1986 and 1994. Analyses indicated that early sexual initiation was primarily attributable to male sex, Black race, early maternal childbearing, father absence, and adolescents' autonomous decision making during early adolescence. Multigroup path models suggested that few effects were moderated by sex or race/ethnicity. We discuss implications of these findings for future research and prevention/intervention efforts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01