“…Past research on early adolescent sexual decision making focused on two major decision points: whether or not to engage in sexual intercourse and whether or not to use safer sex methods, such as condoms (Hulton, 2001). Quantitative studies identified risk and protective factors that appear to influence adolescents' decisions to engage in sexual activity or to use safer sex methods, including self-efficacy, parental values, peer norms, supervision, decision-making orientation, and partner communication (e.g., Cohen, Farley, Taylor, Martin, & Schuster, 2002;DiIorio, Dudley, Kelly, Soet, Mbwara, & Sharpe Potter, 2001;DiIorio, Dudley, Soet, & McCarty, 2004;Epstein, Dusenbury, Botvin, & Diaz, 1994;Jensen, de Gaston, & Weed, 1994;Langer, Zimmerman, Warheit, & Duncan, 1993;Longmore, Manning, Giordano, & Rudolph, 2003;Paikoff, 1995;Rosenthal, von Ranson, Cotton, Biro, Mills, & Succop, 2001;Sieving, Resnick, Bearinger, Remafedi, Taylor, & Harmon, 1997).…”