Motivations for sex and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults: A functional perspective.

Cooper, Melanie M.; Shapiro, Cheryl; Powers, Anne M.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.75.6.1528

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“…Moreover, it was shown that female adolescents who first experienced sexual intercourse before the age of 16 years had a higher risk of developing depression during adulthood than did those who did so after the age of 16 years [18]. The mechanism behind this may be due in part to the fact that anti-social and depressed adolescents expressed their anti-social and depressed emotions through sex [20]. In the present study, depressive symptoms in adolescents were negatively related or unrelated to their sexual intercourse.…”

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The Relationships between Sexual Intercourse and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean and US Adolescents

Lee

Choi

2017

J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs

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Purpose: Early sexual intercourse is associated with poor health outcomes in adolescents. It is known that sexual intercourse coincides with other health risk behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and using drugs. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationships between sexual intercourse and health risk behaviors among Korean and US adolescents using nationally representative data. Methods: Data were collected from the 2011 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (29,676 students) and 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (10,135 high school students). Logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: In Korea, students who had sexual intercourse accounted for 7.0% in total. Among these, 9.7% were male and 4.2% were female students. In the US, a total of 51.3% students had sexual intercourse, and the proportion of the US male (49.3%) and female (53.4%) students who had sexual intercourse was similar. Korean and US students who experienced sexual intercourse were more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and use drugs. Conclusion: Since the results of this study show the relationships between sexual intercourse and health risk behaviors, it is necessary to develop comprehensive sex education programs with effective strategies to reduce health risk behaviors in adolescents.

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The Relationships between Sexual Intercourse and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean and US Adolescents

Lee

Choi

2017

J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs

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“…Longitudinal associations would suggest additional mechanisms. For example, violence involvement may lead to increases in substance use and sexual behavior over time if engagement in health risk behavior is a means of distracting oneself from or coping with stressful aspects of violence (i.e., stress-response framework [9,[14][15][16][17]). Engagement in substance use and sexual activity with multiple partners may lead to increases in violence involvement over time if these health risk behaviors place adolescents in situations in which violence is more likely to occur (i.e., vulnerability to violence framework [18][19][20]).…”

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“…It is possible that adolescents may have engaged in health risk behavior as a temporary escape from stressful aspects of violence involvement. Previous research shows that violent victimization and perpetration are both linked with adjustment problems [24][25][26] and that some individuals are motivated to engage in substance use [9,[14][15][16][17] and sexual behavior [9,[16][17] as a means of coping with stressful life circumstances. Further research is needed to demonstrate whether longitudinal associations between violence involvement and other forms of health risk behavior are mediated by cognitive and affective responses to violence, including motivations to engage in risk behavior as a means of coping with violence.…”

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“…Both victimization by violence and violent perpetration are linked to a range of adjustment problems among youth, including posttraumatic stress and depression [24][25][26]. Health risk behaviors such as substance use [9,[14][15][16][17] and sexual activity [9,[16][17] may temporarily reduce distress by providing a means of escape. Longitudinal associations between violence involvement and other forms of health risk behavior would strengthen the argument that health risk behavior may be a response to stressful aspects of violence involvement.…”

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Violence Involvement, Substance Use, and Sexual Activity Among Mexican-American and European-American Adolescents

Brady

Tschann

Pasch

et al. 2008

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Purpose-This study examined longitudinal associations between violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity. Methods-302 urban Mexican American and EuropeanAmerican adolescents were randomly selected and recruited from the membership lists of a large health maintenance organization. Data were obtained from interviews conducted when the mean ages of adolescents were 15, 18, and 19 years.Results-Independent of age, gender, ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, and previous levels of health risk behavior, adolescents who had been victimized by violence at age 15 were more likely to use tobacco at age 19. Adolescents who had been victimized by or perpetrated violence at age 18 had a greater number of sexual partners and were more likely to use marijuana at age 19. In addition, adolescents who had perpetrated violence at age 18 engaged in greater alcohol use at age 19. A second set of analyses showed that independent of demographics and previous violence involvement, adolescents who had used marijuana at age 15 were more likely to report violence involvement at age 19. Adolescents who had used tobacco or who had a greater number of sexual partners at ages 15 or 18 were more likely to report violent victimization at age 19.Conclusions-Associations between violence involvement and other forms of health risk behavior are bidirectional. Adolescents involved with violence are at risk for increases in substance use and sexual behavior over time. Adolescents who engage in substance use and sexual behavior with multiple partners are also at risk for later violence involvement.Correspondence, Requests for reprints and correspondence should be addressed to Sonya S. Brady, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. , and some data suggests they are more likely to experience negative health consequences of substance use [12]. The present study adds to a small literature examining associations between peer violence and other forms of health risk behavior among Latino youth [6][7]. For example, witnessing community violence was associated with greater lifetime drunkenness and likelihood of using cigarettes and marijuana among a representative sample of students in Panama, Costa Rica, and Guatemala [6]. Violent victimization was associated with greater opportunities to use marijuana among students in Mexico City [7]. In the present study, we examined longitudinal associations betwe...

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Double Jeopardy

Barnet¹,

Liu²,

DeVoe³

2008

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Participants: Two hundred sixty-nine consenting teens, predominantly African American and with low income, who received prenatal care at any of the 5 communitybased prenatal sites and completed follow-up questionnaires at 1 or 2 years post partum.Intervention: Baseline depressive symptoms were measured with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale.Outcome Measure: Occurrence of and time to subsequent pregnancy by 2 years post partum.Results: Among teens completing at least 1 follow-up questionnaire, baseline depressive symptoms were present in 46%. A subsequent pregnancy by 2 years post partum was experienced by 49%, with a mean (SD) time to first subsequent pregnancy of 11.4 (5.8) months. Depressive symptoms were associated with increased risk of subsequent pregnancy in both unadjusted models (hazard ratio, 1.44; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-2.03) and adjusted models (hazard ratio, 1.44; 95% confidence interval, 1.00-2.01).Conclusions: Depressive symptoms may be an independent risk factor for subsequent pregnancy in African American adolescent mothers. Because depression is treatable, future studies should evaluate whether improved recognition and treatment of adolescent depression reduces the risk of rapid subsequent pregnancy.

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Motivations for sex and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults: A functional perspective.

Cited by 449 publications

References 61 publications

The Relationships between Sexual Intercourse and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean and US Adolescents

The Relationships between Sexual Intercourse and Health Risk Behaviors in Korean and US Adolescents

Violence Involvement, Substance Use, and Sexual Activity Among Mexican-American and European-American Adolescents

Double Jeopardy

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