Adolescent premarital sex and health outcomes among Taiwanese youth: perception of best friends' sexual behavior and the contextual effect

Chiao, Chi; Yi, Cao

doi:10.1080/09540121.2011.555737

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“…This belief, whether correct or not, may influence individual behaviour. A positive and significant association between perceived peers' sexual behaviour and the likelihood of adolescent premarital sexual engagement has been shown after adjustment for young people's attitudes, individual characteristics and family background (Chiao and Yib 2011). Peer norms are also considered to be markedly more liberal than wider societal norms.…”

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Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Farahani¹,

Cleland

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper describes perceptions of the societal acceptability and acceptability among peers of different types of premarital heterosexual relationships in Iran. Sources of variation in subjective norms are assessed. Results derive from a survey conducted in 2005 of a representative sample of 1743 female college students from four multidisciplinary universities in Tehran using two-stage random cluster sampling. An anonymous pilot-tested questionnaire was used. Respondents displayed remarkable heterogeneity and ambiguity concerning the social acceptability of premarital heterosexual friendship, dating and physical contact, but expressed greater certainty about the unacceptability of premarital sex. The majority (77.5%) reported that premarital sex was socially prohibited, while about one third (33.1%) were unsure about the social acceptability of having a boyfriend and dating before marriage. Peer norms were perceived to be more liberal but, nevertheless, very few peers were thought to be in favour of premarital intercourse. Older students, those with educated fathers and those studying in a mixed-sex university perceived norms to be more liberal than their counterparts. Access to satellite television, a major source of exposure to new information and values about sexuality, was a major predictor of liberal peer norms. It appears that a significant proportion of young people in Tehran have broken with tradition with regard to premarital social interaction and romantic friendships, but the majority still conforms to traditional cultural and religious values regarding abstinence before marriage.

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Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Farahani¹,

Cleland

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…Second, the TYP data was based on self-reported recall of psychological distress, raising the issue of recall bias. Third, adolescents were asked to provide personal, private information about their sexual activities and may have been somewhat reluctant in that regard despite a previous study (Chiao & Yi, 2011) validating self-reports of sexual activity within the TYP sample. Fourth, attrition in a panel sample is always a concern.…”

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“…A total of 2851 of the 2888 sampled individuals completed the initial interview. Response rates were 99, 88, 72, 64, and 63% for respective waves (Chiao & Yi, 2011). The sample was restricted to adolescents with complete data on psychological distress and pubertal developmental questions, yielding 2595 adolescents at initial assessment, 2330 in 2001, 1899 in 2003, 1690 in 2005, and 1722 in 2007.…”

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The influence of early sexual debut and pubertal timing on psychological distress among Taiwanese adolescents

Chiao¹,

Ksobiech

2014

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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This study examined the relative influence of early sexual debut (ESD) and pubertal timing on psychological distress from adolescence to young adulthood in Taiwan, a non-Western society with a distinct cultural and family context. Data were from a cohort sample of 15-year-olds (N = 2595) first interviewed in 2000, with four follow-ups during a 7-year period. Psychological distress was assessed by a reduced form of the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised. ESD was defined by first intercourse at age 15 or younger. Multivariate analyses via growth curve modeling found a greater increase in psychological distress over time in adolescents with ESD (β = .28, p < .05). Early-pubertal adolescents were at greater risk for the onset of psychological distress (β = .46, p < .05). Further, early pubertal adolescents with an ESD appeared to be especially likely to be distressed (β = 3.39, p < .05). In addition, analyses showed a non-linear trajectory of psychological distress between the ages of 15 and 22, with distress escalating (β = .45, p < .001) as age increased before tapering off as adolescents became young adults (β = -.03, p < .001). Results suggest the contributing influence of both ESD and pubertal timing on distress trajectories, independent of parental and family characteristics.

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“…Factors not well understood, but likely to be of importance in early sexual debut are the social expectations based on gender. Despite varying contextual circumstances, positive or negative perceptions of sexual intercourse appear to influence the onset or delay of sexual intercourse (Chiao, 2011). The aim of the present study was to assess gender differentials in factors influencing sexual initiation among adolescents in Zambia.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies, including those assessing adolescent sexual attitudes and longitudinal associations with coital debut, have concluded that adolescents are more likely to initiate sex if they have permissive or positive attitudes towards sex (Whitbeck et al, 1999). Despite varying contextual circumstances, positive or negative perceptions of sexual intercourse appear to influence the onset or delay of sexual intercourse (Chiao, 2011).…”

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Gender differentials in sexual initiation among adolescents in Zambia

Kusanthan¹,

Ndubani²

2018

Afr. Res. Rev.

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The purpose of the present study was to assess gender differentials in factors influencing sexual initiation among adolescents in Zambia. Data employed in this study was derived from the 2013 Zambia Demographic Health Survey. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify gender differentials in sexual initiation by considering socio-economic variables. The data revealed that about 22 per cent of the female and 32.6 per cent of males reported having had sex by the age of 15 years old. About 49.5 per cent of the female and 54.9 per cent of the males reported having had sex by the age of 18 years old. Logistic regression analysis identified age, religion, residence, wealth status, working status, educational level, watching television and drinking alcohol as strong predictors of respondent's likelihood of sexual initiation by the age of 15 years old. The study found that male youths who drank alcohol were 1.4 times more likely to be sexually active by the age of 15 years old compared to those who did not drink alcohol. Female youths who were working were 1.4 times more likely to report having had sex by the age of 15 years old and those who drank alcohol were 1.3 times more likely to report been sexually active by the age of 15 years old. This study is in agreement with other African and western based studies which have shown that socioeconomic and demographic variables have a significant influence on early sexual initiation among adolescents in Zambia.Interventions that seek to prevent HIV and AIDS and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents through regulation of sexual behaviour would need to seriously account for socio-demographic and economic influences.

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Adolescent premarital sex and health outcomes among Taiwanese youth: perception of best friends' sexual behavior and the contextual effect

Cited by 40 publications

References 39 publications

Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

Perceived norms of premarital heterosexual relationships and sexuality among female college students in Tehran

The influence of early sexual debut and pubertal timing on psychological distress among Taiwanese adolescents

Gender differentials in sexual initiation among adolescents in Zambia

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