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Parental practices as predictors of adolescents' compulsive sexual behavior: a 6-month prospective study.
- Source :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Jan2024, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p241-253, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) is a prevalent disorder among adolescents. To date, most studies focused on the self-report assessment of individuals without assessing possible parental practices that might alleviate or exacerbate adolescents' CSB. In the present research, I adopted the family systematic approach, which considers the effects of family context on children's and adolescents' development and examined whether and how parental (fathers' and mothers') support giving, communication, and restrictive mediation relate to children's current and future severity of CSB. The sample comprised 300 Israeli families [triad of mothers, fathers, and one adolescent (39% boys, 61% girls; age 14–18)]. Results indicate that maternal support and paternal quality of communication with children significantly predicted lower severity of current and future CSB, respectively. These findings highlight an important and understudied topic in the hope of motivating additional researchers and practitioners to adopt a familial, microsystem perspective on healthy sexual development—a perspective that holds great promise in promoting normal sexual development and in decreasing risky sexual behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMPULSIVE behavior -- Risk factors
ADOLESCENT development
FATHERHOOD
PARENT attitudes
RISK-taking behavior
SOCIAL support
HUMAN sexuality
CHILD development
FAMILY health
PARENTING
RISK assessment
MOTHERHOOD
SEX customs
TEENAGERS' conduct of life
COMMUNICATION
HEALTH behavior
PARENT-child relationships
FAMILY relations
LONGITUDINAL method
SEXUAL health
HEALTH promotion
ADOLESCENCE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10188827
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174972294
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02155-2