Friends' Influence on Adolescents' First Sexual Intercourse

Sieving, Renee E.; Eisenberg, Marla E.; Pettingell, Sandra L.; Skay, Carol L.

doi:10.1363/3801306

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“…Brown and colleagues (2000) found that among adolescents with hemophilia and infected with HIV, adolescent perceptions of peer support for safer sex was associated with improvement and maintenance of safer sexual behavior. This is consistent with cross-sectional studies that find associations of safer sexual behavior with healthy peer norms (Santelli et al 2004;Sieving et al 2006). Among an inner-city sample of women, greater perception of peer support for condom use was associated with being in a later stage of change (Cabral et al 2004), but among adults attending inner-city health clinics, peer norms were not associated with transitions in stage of change for condom use behavior (Malotte et al 2000).…”

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Adolescent Sexual Risk: Factors Predicting Condom Use Across the Stages of Change

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This study examined factors associated with high-risk adolescents' movement toward or away from adopting consistent condom use behavior using the Transtheoretical Model Stages of Change. Participants drawn from the inactive comparison condition of a randomized HIV prevention trial (Project SHIELD) responded to items assessing pros and cons of condom use, peer norms, condom communication, and perceived invulnerability to HIV. Participants were categorized based on their condom use behavior using the Transtheoretical Model. Multiple logistic regressions found that progression to consistent condom use was predicted by continuing to perceive more advantages to condom use, reporting greater condom use communication with partners, and less perceived invulnerability to HIV. Movement away from adopting consistent condom use was predicted by a decrease in perceived advantages to condom use, increased perceived condom disadvantages, and fewer condom discussions. Future interventions may be tailored to enhance these factors that were found to change over time.

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Adolescent Sexual Risk: Factors Predicting Condom Use Across the Stages of Change

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“…This is in contrast to findings from a number of studies (Blum & Mmari, 2004;Hatherall et al, 2005;Kerrigan, Witt, Glass, Chung, & Ellen, 2006;Rani & Lule, 2004;Sieving, Eisenberg, Pettingell, & Skay, 2006). Our aim was to distinguish between socially induced vulnerability (determined by community norms, and family and peer socialization) and the propensity for sexual risk behavior (determined by endogenous factors such as personal values and beliefs, as well as experiences).…”

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An Assessment of HIV/STI Vulnerability and Related Sexual Risk-Taking in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Croatian Adults

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Despite the recent increase in the number of HIV infections in Central and Eastern Europe, patterns of sexual behavior have not been extensively researched, particularly among young people. The aim of the present study was to provide a comprehensive assessment of HIV/AIDS-related vulnerability and sexual risk-taking among young adults in Croatia. Data were collected in 2005 using a nationally representative, multi-stage stratified probability sample (n = 1,093) of women and men aged 18-24 years. The focus in this article was on predictors of sexual risk-taking measured by a composite risky sexual behaviors scale. Using hierarchical regression models, we analyzed gendered effects of community, family, peer group, and individual level factors. For both men and women, peer pressure, sensation seeking, personal risk-assessment, behavioral intention, condom use at first sexual intercourse, and sexual victimization were significant predictors of sexual risk-taking behaviors. A number of predictors were gender-specific: sexual assertiveness and condom self-efficacy for women and parental monitoring, traditional morality, HIV knowledge, and talking about sex with partner for men. Documenting substantial prevalence of potentially risky sexual behaviors among young people in Croatia, the findings call for prevention and intervention efforts that should focus on individual capacity building for responsible sexual behavior.

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“…Over the course of adolescence, intimacy with friends increases (Hunter & Youniss, 1982) and friends may exert substantial influence over adolescents' romantic relationships (Connolly, Furman, & Konarski, 2000). Furthermore, youth tend to be friends with peers who engage in similar behaviors (Sieving, Eisenberg, Pettingell, & Skay, 2006). It is possible that, similar to the situation described above, youth whose social network sanctions their sexual relationship may particularly benefit from the affective improvement seen before sex.…”

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Affect Regulation, Social Context, and Sexual Intercourse in Adolescents

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This study examined trajectories of positive and negative affect surrounding penile-vaginal sexual intercourse (sex) in adolescents and explored the influence of companionship on these trajectories. Using a handheld computer, sexually active adolescents (N = 67) reported momentary affect and sex events in response to several random signals each day for 1 week (1,777 reports, 266 sex events). Cubic spline regression analyses showed that positive affect began to increase before sex, peaked at the time sex was reported, and then returned to baseline. Negative affect did not differ from baseline before sex, but decreased following sex. Improvement in affect before and after sex varied according to companionship. Understanding the complex associations of affect, companionship, and sex has implications for interpreting and intervening on adolescent sexual behavior in social context.

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Friends' Influence on Adolescents' First Sexual Intercourse

Abstract: To maximize the likelihood of success, programs focused on delaying teenage sexual intercourse should address norms for sexual behavior among adolescents' close friends as well as the perceptions, skills and behaviors of individual youth.

Cited by 125 publications

References 20 publications

Adolescent Sexual Risk: Factors Predicting Condom Use Across the Stages of Change

Adolescent Sexual Risk: Factors Predicting Condom Use Across the Stages of Change

An Assessment of HIV/STI Vulnerability and Related Sexual Risk-Taking in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Croatian Adults

Affect Regulation, Social Context, and Sexual Intercourse in Adolescents

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