Character as a Predictor of Reproductive Health Outcomes for Youth: A Systematic Review

Protecting and Promoting: An Integrative Conceptual Model for Healthy Development of Adolescents

“…In addition, their review identified 61 studies examining parental monitoring (structural domain), the findings of which illustrated the important role that such structural support could provide in influencing positive adolescent health behaviors. On the basis of two comprehensive literature reviews, empirical findings from 32 studies examining future time perspective [112] and 131 studies examining prosocial norms [113] demonstrated that both hope (cognitive domain) and prosocial norms (moral domain) can function as significant protective factors in adolescent health outcomes such as early sexual debut and pregnancy. Therefore, it is clear that a transactional developmental framework and usage of these eight developmental domains are valuable and generalizable to a broad array of adolescent outcomes related to overall health and wellbeing.…”

Protective and Risk Factors Associated with Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in the English-speaking Caribbean: A Literature Review

“…The same criteria were used for the inclusion of qualitative studies with the exception of criterion 7, as qualitative studies rarely have such large samples. The sample size requirements, used in similar reviews, were chosen to ensure that the studies reviewed had sufficient power for statistical analyses [22][23][24].…”

Confidence as a Predictor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Youth

“…Religious identity was not included in this article but was included as a component of spirituality in an article in this issue that examines character [80]. Assessment of clear and positive identity varied across the studies; eight studies measured overall identity, and 20 measured a specific domain of identity (i.e., body, racial/ethnic, sexual, or social).…”