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

Gloppen, Kari M.; David-Ferdon, Corinne; Bates, Jessica

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.11.216

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“…A review of positive youth development programs found that 50% of programs identified named increasing adolescents’ belief in the future as a program goal (56). A systematic review of the literature found belief in the future to be predictive of contracepting (57). In the same study, Gloppen, David-Ferndon, and Bates (2010) report that most studies operationalized belief in the future as the extent of educational aspirations.…”

Section: Perspectives On Future Orientation and Their Relationship Tomentioning

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Future orientation: a construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing

Johnson¹,

Blum

Cheng³

2014

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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Multi-disciplinary research has supported a relationship between adolescent future orientation (the ability to set future goals and plans) and positive adolescent health and development outcomes. Many preventive strategies-for example contracepting, exercising-are based on taking actions in the present to avoid unwanted or negative future consequences. However, research has been hampered by unclear and often divergent conceptualizations of the future orientation construct. The present paper aims to integrate previous conceptual and operational definitions into a conceptual framework that can inform programs and services for youth and efforts to evaluate future orientation as a target for intervention. Recommendations focus on furthering the study of the construct through measurement synthesis as well as studies of the normative development of future orientation. Also suggested is the need to pair environmental intervention strategies with individual level efforts to improve future orientation in order to maximize benefits.

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Section: Perspectives On Future Orientation and Their Relationship Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

Future orientation: a construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing

Johnson¹,

Blum

Cheng³

2014

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

147

119

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“…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.…”

Section: Transactional Development: Eight Key Domainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kia‐Keating

Dowdy

Morgan

et al. 2011

Journal of Adolescent Health

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142

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“…While many studies explore women’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) and their reproductive outcomes, [5–7] little is known about such associations in men. Recent research has examined adolescent male’s reproductive KAB and their sexual behavior, including abstinence, and condom and contraception use;[8–10] however, due to data limitations these studies could not account for a central outcome--entrance into fatherhood. Measuring KAB during adolescence, a period when such knowledge about sexual and reproductive behavior is developed [11] has the potential to inform future outcomes such as fatherhood status, timing and residency.…”

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Adolescent Reproductive Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Future Fatherhood

Garfield

Duncan

Peters

et al. 2016

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Background With a growing focus on the importance of men’s reproductive health--including preconception health--the ways in which young men’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) predict their reproductive paths are understudied. Objective To determine if reproductive KAB predicts fatherhood status, timing and residency (living with child or not). Methods Reproductive KAB and fatherhood outcomes were analyzed from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a 20-year, nationally representative study of individuals from adolescence into adulthood. Four measures of reproductive KAB were assessed during adolescence in Waves I and II. A generalized linear latent and mixed model predicted future fatherhood status (non-father, resident/nonresident father, adolescent father) and timing while controlling for other socio-demographic variables. Results Of the 10,253 males, 3425 were fathers (686 non-resident/2739 resident) by wave IV. Higher risky sexual behavior scores significantly increased the odds of becoming nonresident father (OR=1.30, p < 0.0001), resident father (OR=1.07, p = 0.007), and adolescent father (OR=1.71, p < 0.0001); higher pregnancy attitudes scores significantly increased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (OR=1.20, p < 0.0001) and resident father (O =1.11, p < 0.0001); higher birth control self-efficacy scores significantly decreased the odds of becoming a nonresident father (O =0.72, p < 0.0001), and adolescent father (OR=0.56, p = 0.01). Conclusion Young men’s KAB in adolescence predicts their future fatherhood and residency status. Strategies that address adolescent males' reproductive KAB are needed in the prevention of unintended reproductive consequences such as early and nonresident fatherhood.

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

Cited by 47 publications

References 147 publications

Future orientation: a construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing

Future orientation: a construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing

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

Adolescent Reproductive Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Future Fatherhood

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