Relationships between Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors and Emotional Self-Efficacy

Perceived Difficulty of Performing Selected HIV/AIDS Preventive Behaviors and Life Satisfaction: Is there a Relationship for African American Adolescents?

“…P-values of transformed data were not statistically different than non-transformed data presented. All models controlled for age and socioeconomic status (free/reduced price school lunch) owing to age and socioeconomic status differing in their association with adolescent sexual risk behavior [28,39,42,52,53]. Analyses were performed using Statistical Analysis Software (SAS 9.2).…”

“…Thus, an individual’s subjective well-being reflects their general frequency of positive and negative emotions and their judgment of overall life satisfaction [27]. The study of emotional self-efficacy is an emerging area of research in adolescent health [28-30] and research points to the importance of this domain of emotional self-efficacy, that is, beliefs regarding competence in controlling negative emotions [28-30]. Life satisfaction seems to predict a person’s ability to function in major life tasks or social roles [31].…”

“…The second objective was to determine differences between perceived difficulty of performing HIV/AIDS preventive behavior and life satisfaction by adolescents’ gender. The analyses are guided by results observed in the adolescent life satisfaction [48-51] and sexual risk behavior literature [28,39,42,52,53] where results varied as a function of gender across each study.…”

Emotional Self-Efficacy and Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Adolescents

“…Common applications of ESE in everyday life include a person's belief in their abilities to avoid negative emotional states and to restore normal emotional states (e.g., self-talk to regain a positive attitude and calming yourself once scared or anxious). Further exploration into the role that ESE might potentially play in alcohol and tobacco use may bring the public and mental health field closer to understanding alcohol and tobacco use in adolescents similar to previous research in sexual risk taking, physical inactivity, and suicide ideation and suicide attempts (Valois, Umstattd, Zullig, & Paxton, 2008;Valois, Zullig, & Hunter, 2014;Valois, Zullig, Kammermann, & Kershner, 2013). Despite substance use being linked, respectively, to certain facets of both emotion and selfefficacy, a comprehensive review of current literature failed to render any studies that directly examined the relationship between alcohol and tobacco use and ESE in an adolescent population.…”

Aggressive and Violent Behavior and Emotional Self‐Efficacy: Is There a Relationship for Adolescents?

“…Common applications of ESE include a person's belief in their abilities to avoid negative emotional states and to restore normal emotional states (eg, self‐talk to regain a positive attitude, calming yourself once scared or anxious). As such, recent research suggests that adolescents with increased ESE are less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, suicide ideation, and substance use, and are more likely to engage in health promoting behaviors such as physical activity . Noteworthy from these studies were the significant observed differences by race and sex, suggesting that ESE may be may be situation‐specific to girls and boys and race dependent on the behavior …”