Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

Karney, Benjamin R.; Beckett, Megan K.; Shaw, Rebecca

doi:10.7249/tr488

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“…They also have a more positive SN towards sexting and experience greater behavioural control. However, data on adolescent romantic relationships highlight that many of these relationships last less than one year (Karney et al 2007). Intervention efforts could alert young people to the dangers of sharing sexually intimate content with a romantic partner, especially if the romance sours.…”

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Under pressure to sext? Applying the theory of planned behaviour to adolescent sexting

Walrave

Heirman

Hallam

2013

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Adolescent sexting -the electronic swapping of sexually intimate texts or images -has attracted significant media and policy attention. However, questions remain about the predictors of this phenomenon, in which mobile phones play a central role in adolescents' exploration of sexuality. Therefore, a survey involving 498 adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years was conducted. The first aim of this study is to determine the predictive value of personal attitudes, subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioural control by applying the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). As the second aim, we wish to assess the relative importance of the most salient beliefs underpinning the TPB components, since this will allow us to gain a more nuanced insight into the characteristics of adolescent sexting. Analyses reveal that SN is the most important predictor, followed by adolescents' attitudes towards sexting. Perceived behavioural control is significantly but weakly associated with teenagers' sexting intentions. Within SN, friends and romantic partners represent the most important sources of social pressure, while only positive behavioural outcomes are found to affect adolescents' sexting intentions. The most important control belief affecting adolescents' intention to sext is the belief that it occurs relatively more often among those whom adolescents feel they can trust entirely.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Under pressure to sext? Applying the theory of planned behaviour to adolescent sexting

Walrave

Heirman

Hallam

2013

Behaviour & Information Technology

116

101

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“…With these points in mind, researchers have become increasingly interested in how various characteristics of adolescent dating relationships correlate with negative and positive behaviors and outcomes (for reviews of this literature see Giordano 2003 and Karney et al 2007). Work in this area shows that dating relationships with individuals who do not attend an adolescent’s school are relatively common and that these institutionally-discordant relationships may be riskier for adolescents (Ford, Shon, and Lepkowski 2001).…”

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Racially and Ethnically Diverse Schools and Adolescent Romantic Relationships

Strully

2014

American Journal of Sociology

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Focusing on romantic relationships, which are often seen as a barometer of social distance, this analysis investigates how adolescents from different racial-ethnic and gender groups respond when they attend diverse schools with many opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating. Which groups respond by forming inter-racial-ethnic relationships, and which groups appear to “work around” opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating by forming more same-race-ethnicity relationships outside of school boundaries? Most prior studies have analyzed only relationships within schools and, therefore, cannot capture a potentially important way that adolescents express preferences for same-race-ethnicity relationships and/or work around constraints from other groups’ preferences. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I find that, when adolescents are in schools with many opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating, black females and white males are most likely to form same-race-ethnicity relationships outside of the school; whereas Hispanic males and females are most likely to date across racial-ethnic boundaries within the school.

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“…Peer groups also affect the dyadic capacity to coordinate safer sex through direct effects on the nature and quality of dyadic relationships [71]. A number of studies have described substantial continuity between the quality of individuals’ relationships with their peers and the quality of their subsequent sexual and intimate relationships [72–75].…”

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A Framework for Incorporating Dyads in Models of HIV-Prevention

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Although HIV is contracted by individuals, it is typically transmitted in dyads. Most efforts to promote safer sex practices, however, focus exclusively on individuals. The goal of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework that specifies how models of dyadic processes and relationships can inform models of HIV-prevention. At the center of the framework is the proposition that safer sex between two people requires a dyadic capacity for successful coordination. According to this framework, relational, individual, and structural variables that affect the enactment of safer sex do so through their direct and indirect effects on that dyadic capacity. This dyadic perspective does not require an ongoing relationship between two individuals; rather, it offers a way of distinguishing between dyads along a continuum from anonymous strangers (with minimal coordination of behavior) to long-term partners (with much greater coordination). Acknowledging the dyadic context of HIV-prevention offers new targets for interventions and suggests new approaches to tailoring interventions to specific populations.

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Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

Cited by 54 publications

References 276 publications

Under pressure to sext? Applying the theory of planned behaviour to adolescent sexting

Under pressure to sext? Applying the theory of planned behaviour to adolescent sexting

Racially and Ethnically Diverse Schools and Adolescent Romantic Relationships

A Framework for Incorporating Dyads in Models of HIV-Prevention

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