Reported Sexual Behaviors and Self-esteem Among Young Adolescents

Gay-related stress and its correlates among gay and bisexual male adolescents of predominantly Black and Hispanic background

“…These negative findings were consistent with those of other researchers focusing on predominantly heterosexual youth samples (Eskilson et al, 1986;Orr et al, 1989;Workman & Beer, 1989). However, these nonsignificant findings may mask important but complex relationships.…”

Perceived competencies, peer group affiliation, and risk behavior among early adolescents.

“…Twenty-five percent of the sample reported having had sexual intercourse (see Table 2). This is similar to levels reported by Siegel, Lazarus, Krasnovsky, Durbin, and Chesney (1991) and somewhat lower than levels reported by Orr et al (1989) in samples of similarly aged students. The hypothesis that crowd affiliation is associated with sexual intercourse, controlling for gender, ethnicity, and competencies, was tested by logistic regression using sexual activity as the outcome measure (had or not had sex).…”

Self-esteem, emotional distress and sexual behavior among adolescent females: Inter-relationships and temporal effects

“…Our findings that girls who have sex earlier have lower self-esteem fits with past research [1,2]. Because the entire sample was sexually active and because these factors were all measured at baseline (and, thus, reports of behavior are retrospective), we do not know whether these same girls had lower self-esteem before initiating sex.…”