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Abstinence among female adolescents: Do parents matter above and beyond the influence of peers?
- Source :
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 76:260-264
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2006.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to determine whether parental variables predict abstinence above and beyond the influence of peer variables in a sample of African American adolescent females (n = 568). In order to determine predictors of abstinence, hierarchical logistic regressions were conducted for the entire sample, the younger adolescent girls, and the older adolescent girls. Results indicated that for the total sample and older adolescents, both parental sexual attitudes and parent-adolescent relationship quality predicted abstinence after accounting for the variance associated with peer variables. For the younger girls, perceived parental attitudes were the only significant predictor. These findings suggest that adolescent sexual risk reduction interventions may benefit from including parents, stressing the importance of articulating parental sexual attitudes, and highlighting the significance of the parent-adolescent relationship.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Adolescent
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Population
Psychological intervention
Peer Group
Developmental psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Parent-Child Relations
Child
education
Sexual Abstinence
Social influence
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education.field_of_study
Parenting
Social environment
Peer group
Abstinence
Mental health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Sexual abstinence
Adolescent Behavior
Female
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19390025 and 00029432
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f0bcade7d5fd0c3198fa5baf75c08ab4