Pathways from Family Religiosity to Adolescent Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use

Manlove, Jennifer; Logan, Cassandra; Moore, Kristin Anderson; Ikramullah, Erum

doi:10.1363/4010508

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“…By 12th grade, adolescent girls reported more sexual activity (higher incidences of initiation and current sexual activity) than boys (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008). The results of this study of the NSFG data were in concert with findings of the YRBS and other current research in which female adolescents were in general just as, or slightly more, likely to be sexually active as males (Aspy et al 2007;Eaton et al 2006;Manlove et al 2008;Rostosky et al 2003). Previously, researchers concluded that male adolescents were more sexually active than females; however, data from this study and others indicate that this pattern has changed.…”

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“…For male and female teens, frequent attendance at religious services and religious youth activities, higher levels of importance of religion in daily life and religious feelings, and increased adherence to religious teachings were all significantly related to decreased rates of voluntary sexual debut (Fehring et al 1998;Holder et al 2000;Lammers et al 2000;Lefkowitz et al 2004;McCree et al 2003;Nonnemaker et al 2003;Rostosky et al 2003). Having increased levels of social support from friends in a faith context was related to decreased likelihood of sexual initiation as was having peers who attended church regularly (Holder et al 2000;Manlove et al 2008;Mott et al 1996). For sexually experienced youths, increased attendance at religious services and participation in organized religious activities were related to decreased frequency of sexual intercourse and noncoital genital behaviors and number of sexual partners (Fehring et al 1998;Lefkowitz et al 2004).…”

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“…sexual initiation among adolescents, older age at coitarche and indirectly to decreased sexual partners (Manlove et al 2008). …”

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The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Haglund

Fehring

2009

J Relig Health

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Abstract:This study examined the association of religiosity, sexual education and family structure with risky sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults. The nationally representative sample, from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, included 3,168 women and men ages 15-21 years. Those who viewed religion as very important, had frequent church attendance, and held religious sexual attitudes were 27-54% less likely to have had sex and had significantly fewer sex partners than peers. Participants whose formal and parental sexual education included abstinence and those from two-parent families were 15% less likely to have had sex and had fewer partners.

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The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Haglund

Fehring

2009

J Relig Health

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“…This was found to be true even after controlling for age, race, parent education, and the availability of romantic partners (Rotosky, Regnerus, & Wright, 2003) [20]. The family's level of religiosity has also been shown to be inversely related to sexual activity (Manlove, Logan, Moore, Ikramullah, 2008) [21]. In an earlier study, Manlove, Terry-Humen, Ikramullah, and Moore (2006) [22] surveyed adolescents aged 12 to 14, and found that family religiosity was also associated with delaying of first sexual intercourse.…”

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The Role of Parents in Early Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior

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Ali

2011

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Abstract:The primary purpose of this study was to better understand the role of parents in early adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior, as parents are ecologically an important proximal factor. Predictor variables included were mother and father approval of premarital sex, parent-adolescent communication about sexuality, and parental social support. Religiosity was also included. The participants were 194, male (n=89) and female (n=105) students in the 7 th and 8 th grades (ages 12-15, mean=13.24), primarily African-American and Mexican-American and of lower socioeconomic status, from two middle schools in an urban school district of a large city in the Midwest of the U.S.A.. Variance in most criterion variables was significantly explained by various combinations of these parenting variables. However, none of these parenting variables predicted adolescents' intentions to avoid pregnancy, plans sexual intercourse debut, or plans for continuing sexual intercourse if already started (n=34). Contributions to existing literature, as well as implications for prevention and intervention, are discussed.

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“…Sexual activity among young adults affects their risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs); however, religiosity may not impact all sexual behaviors in the same way (Manlove et al 2008). Additionally, various measures of religiosity, representative of different dimensions of religiosity, may have different impacts on sexual behavior.…”

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Hiding the Word: Examining the Relationship Between a New Measure of Religiosity and Sexual Behavior

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The relationship between religiosity and sexual behavior has been previously investigated, but researchers have not examined the relationship between the intellectual dimension of religiosity and sexual behavior. In this study, we developed an intellectual measure of religiosity, Hiding the Word (HTW), and examined whether it accounted for variation in the sexual behavior of college students, beyond that for which age and a generic measure of religiosity could account. Results showed, after accounting for age and generic religiosity, HTW made a significant contribution to distinguishing between students who had, and those who had not, engaged in various sexual behaviors. For females, this was the case in three of the five behaviors examined (all except receiving oral sex and participating in unprotected penile-vaginal intercourse at most recent sexual encounter), and for males, two of the four behaviors (sexual intercourse and anal intercourse). HTW was less of a factor in accounting for variation in the frequency of participation. For males, HTW was significant for the frequency of participation in penile-vaginal intercourse, Our beloved friend and colleague, George Denny, played a major role in this project, in our lives, and in the lives of countless students. George died on June 13, 2013. He will be greatly missed. 123J Relig Health DOI 10.1007/s10943-013-9777-z receiving oral sex, and the number of sexual partners in the last month. For females, HTW was significant only for the number of sexual partners in the last month. Thus, religiosity, and specifically HTW, seems to play more of a role in determining whether or not a person has participated in behavior, rather than in the frequency of participation.

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Pathways from Family Religiosity to Adolescent Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use

Cited by 108 publications

References 39 publications

The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The Role of Parents in Early Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior

Hiding the Word: Examining the Relationship Between a New Measure of Religiosity and Sexual Behavior

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