scholarly journals Birth Order and First Sexual Experience: Do Siblings Influence Sexual Debut in Adolescents?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Pasqualini ◽  
Amanda Sacker ◽  
Anne McMunn
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Early Sexual Initiation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBirth order may foster specific roles for individuals within the family and set in train a dynamic that influences the development of specific behaviors. In this paper, we explored the relationship between birth order, sex, timing of sexual initiation, and its consequences for risky sexual behavior and sexual health. We conducted a path analysis to simultaneously estimate direct and indirect effects using data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3). Whereas women born as only-children were more likely to sexually debut at later ages, middle-child boys were significantly more prone to initiate sexual intercourse earlier compared with first-borns. As expected, early sexual initiation was associated with riskier behaviors and sexual health outcomes. These associations were partially moderated by siblings role as confidants about sexuality. Our findings have implications for preventive programs aimed at promoting healthy sexual debuts and behaviors over the life span.

scholarly journals Socio-Demographic, Health and Lifestyle Factors Influencing Age of Sexual Initiation among Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Burke ◽  
Saoirse Nic Gabhainn ◽  
Colette Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Developmental Factors ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Early Sexual Initiation ◽  
Using Data

Behavioural and developmental factors mean that adolescents who initiate sexual intercourse early may be at an increased risk of adverse sexual health outcomes at the time of first sex and later in life. In an Irish context, there is insufficient knowledge about the specific correlates of early sexual initiation. This research explores relationships between contextual socio-demographic, health and lifestyle factors and the timing of first sexual intercourse among 15–17-year-olds in Ireland. Multiple regression analysis was carried out in conjunction with Multiple Imputation using data collected through the 2014 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Ireland study on a sample of 879 sexually active adolescents. The socio-demographic and lifestyle factors measured were a stronger predictor of age of sexual initiation among girls than boys. Risk behaviour initiation was significantly related to age of sexual initiation for adolescents, while alcohol use/drunkenness and unhealthy food consumption was significant among girls only. Family support and number of male friends were significant predictors for boys only. The study highlights the need for holistic approaches to sexual health promotion and provides a foundation for the development of alternative strategies and policies aimed at reducing negative health, well-being, educational and economic outcomes.

BIRTH ORDER, STAGE OF INFANCY AND INFANT MORTALITY IN INDIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 604-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Mishra ◽  
Bali Ram ◽  
Abhishek Singh ◽  
Awdhesh Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Neonatal Period ◽  
Family Health ◽  
National Family Health Survey ◽  
Female Children ◽  
National Family ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryUsing data from India’s National Family Health Survey, 2005–06 (NFHS-3), this article examines the patterns of relationship between birth order and infant mortality. The analysis controls for a number of variables, including mother’s characteristics such as age at the time of survey, current place of residence (urban/rural), years of schooling, religion, caste, and child’s sex and birth weight. A modest J-shaped relationship between birth order of children and their risk of dying in the neonatal period is found, suggesting that although both first- and last-born children are at a significantly greater risk of dying compared with those in the middle, last-borns (i.e. fourth and higher order births) are at the worst risk. However, in the post-neonatal period first-borns are not as vulnerable, but the risk increases steadily with the addition of successive births and last-borns are at much greater risk, even worse than those in the neonatal period. Although the strength of relationship between birth order and mortality is attenuated after the potential confounders are taken into account, the relationship between the two variables remains curvilinear in the neonatal period and direct in the post-neonatal period. There are marked differences in these patterns by the child’s sex. While female children are less prone to the risk of dying in the neonatal period in comparison with male children, the converse is true in the post-neonatal period. Female children not only run higher risks of dying in the post-neonatal period, but also become progressively more vulnerable with an increase in birth order.

scholarly journals The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleftherios Giovanis
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Household Chores ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between teleworking, gender roles and happiness of couples using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Understanding Society Survey (USS) during the period 1991-2012. Various approaches are followed, including Probit-adapted fixed effects, multinomial Logit and Instrumental variables (IV). The results support that both men and women who are teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability that the household chores examined in this study, such as cooking, cleaning ironing and childcare, will be shared relatively to those who are non-teleworkers. In addition, women are happier when they or their spouse is teleworker, as well as, both men and women are happier when they state that the specific household chores are shared. Thus, women teleworkers may be happier because they can face the family demands and share the household chores with their spouse, increasing their fairness belief about the household division allocation and improving their well-being, expressed by happiness.

scholarly journals The Social Skills and Relationship with Family Climate in the Early Childhood (A descriptive study on A Syrian sample): المهارات الاجتماعية وعلاقتها بالمناخ الأسري في مرحلة الطفولة المبكرة: (دراسة وصفية على عينة سورية)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (50) ◽  
pp. 157-134
Author(s):  
Alaa Ahmad Tawfik Saud, Mohammad Q. Abdallah Alaa Ahmad Tawfik Saud, Mohammad Q. Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Family Climate ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

The Research aims to Identifying the relationship between the Social Skills and the family climate, Exploring the differences in the Social Skills according to the gender variable and the birth order, in addition to identifying the differences in the family climate according to the economic level of the family. to achieve the research goals, a tool has been applied for measuring the family climate and the social skills on a sample consists of (712) mothers of children aged 3- 6 years in Syria. Research result showed There is a positive correlation between the social skills and the family climate, There are statistically significant differences in the social skills according to the gender variable, no significant differences in the social skills according to the birth order, in addition to there are statistically significant differences in the family climate according to the economic level of the family

scholarly journals Long-Term Consequences of Early Sexual Initiation on Young Adult Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari C. Kugler ◽  
Sara A. Vasilenko ◽  
Nicole M. Butera ◽  
Donna L. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Propensity Score Methods ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Sexual Initiation ◽  
Using Data

Although early sexual initiation has been linked to negative outcomes, it is unknown whether these effects are causal. In this study, we use propensity score methods to estimate the causal effect of early sexual initiation on young adult sexual risk behaviors and health outcomes using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We found that early sexual initiation predicted having two or more partners (for both males and females) and having a sexually transmitted infection in the past year (females only) but did not predict depressive symptoms in the past week (for either gender). These results underscore the importance of continued programmatic efforts to delay age of sexual initiation, particularly for females.

scholarly journals Genesis of Psychological Sovereignty: Birth Order Factor

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Софья Нартова-Бочавер ◽  
Sof'ya Nartova-Bochaver ◽  
Ольга Силина ◽  
Ol'ga Silina
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Only Children ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sibling Status ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
People First ◽  
The Relationship

The ability to defend the boundaries of one’s empirical self — dispositional sovereignty — is a personality trait with a great adaptive value. It develops through the generalization of everyday actions aimed at protecting the boundaries in discrete situations with other people, first, with one’s family. This paper explores the role of sibling status (birth order) in the development of this trait. Two empirical studies were conducted. In the first of them, carried out with the participation of children aged from two to ten, it is shown that the most mature ways of protection are for only children in the family, the least mature are the first children, and the second children in the family demonstrate an intermediate level of development of boundary protection skills. In the second study conducted on the youth sample, it is shown that the relationship between sovereignty and the order of birth depends on gender: sovereignty hits its peak among younger girls and older boys.

scholarly journals Early sexual debut and risky sex in young adults: the role of low self-control

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Magnusson ◽  
A. Crandall ◽  
K. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to examine the role of low self-control as a mediator or moderator between early age at sexual debut and risky sexual behavior in young adulthood. Methods Data on 5734 male and female Add Health participants were used. Self-control (waves 1 & 3), age at sexual debut (wave 3) and risky sexual behavior (wave 4) were used in a structural equation modeling framework to assess the relationships of interest. Results Approximately 17% of respondents were < 15 years at first sexual intercourse. Among females only, both early age at first intercourse (Parent-report: z = 5.08, p < .001; Self-report: z = 2.05, p < .05) and low self-control at wave 3 (Parent-report: z = 2.30, p < .05; Self-report: z = 2.31, p < .05) mediated the relationship between low self-control at wave 1 and risky sexual behaviors in young adulthood. Similarly in the male-only model, both early age at first intercourse (Parent-report: z = 2.92, p < .01; Self-report: z = 3.04, p < .01) and low self-control at wave 3 (Parent-report: z = 1.99, p < .05; Self-report: z = 3.15, p < .01) mediated the relationship between low self-control and risky sexual behaviors in young adulthood. There was evidence of moderation in the male-only model (− 0.26, p < .01), such that lower impulsivity strengthened the relationship between early sex and risky sex. Conclusions This study confirms the role of executive functions in sexual behaviors and suggests that interventions aimed at improving self-control may be beneficial in reducing risky sexual behavior.

The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Adolescent Violent Victimization Experienced Within the Family and Community

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail A. Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Violent Victimization ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Youth Survey ◽  
Criminal Involvement ◽  
The Family ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Adolescents face high rates of victimization, yet little is known regarding the criminal consequences of these experiences. Using data from the National Youth Survey, this investigation compared the relative and combined effects of adolescent violent victimization perpetrated by family and nonfamily members on self-reported criminal offending from adolescence to early adulthood. The results demonstrate that both types of violence have an immediate and sustained impact on criminal involvement, although the effect is somewhat stronger for nonfamily victimization, and for both types, the relationship tends to weaken over time. In addition, those experiencing both types of victimization report a higher frequency of offending compared to those experiencing only one type. The findings indicate the need for prevention programs aimed at decreasing the prevalence of adolescent victimization, as well as intervention efforts to help victims from becoming offenders.

scholarly journals Early Sexual Debut among Ghanaian Women: Correlates and Psychological Effect

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Abdul Rauf Alhassan ◽  
Kasim Abdulai ◽  
Mohammed Awal Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Early Sexual Debut ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Early Sexual Initiation

Early sexual initiation is linked to an increased risk of HIV/AIDS and other STIs among teenagers, as well as having multiple partners, not using contraception, unintended pregnancy, and illegal abortions. Aim. To identify the correlates and psychological effects of early sexual debut among not-in-union women in Ghana. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was used for this study using data from Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) for the year 2017/2018. SPSS software was used for data analysis, bivariate analysis for association was done using chi-square, and the prediction was done using a binary logistic regression model. The national prevalence of nonmarital early sexual initiation this current study recorded was 56.9%. Predictors variables were age, 15-24/≥35 years ( AOR = 1.51 , 1.28-1.78), ever educated ( AOR = 0.50 , 0.43-0.60), urban address ( AOR = 0.85 , 0.74-0.98), married/single ( AOR = 1.23 , 1.07-1.42), cohabitation/single ( AOR = 1.43 , 1.19-1.72), Greater Accra Region/Upper West Region ( AOR = 0.67 , 0.49-0.92), and health insurance ( AOR = 0.89 , 0.79-0.998). As the wealth indices of the woman decrease from the richest to poorest, the likelihood of early sexual debut inversely increases: fourth/richest ( AOR = 1.23 , 1.04-1.45), middle/richest ( AOR = 1.31 , 1.09-1.58), second/richest ( AOR = 1.38 , 1.11-1.72), and poorest/richest ( AOR = 1.44 , 1.12-1.86); use of the internet ( AOR = 0.58 , 0.50-068); substance use and alcohol ever use ( AOR = 1.32 , 1.17-1.49); cigarette ever use ( AOR = 2.58 , 1.44-4.64); contraceptive use ( AOR = 1.31 , 1.16-1.49); and ever heard of HIV ( AOR = 59 , 0.42-0.82). In conclusion, the prevalence of early sexual debut is still high in Ghana, especially among the northern regions. Several factors predicted early sex debut, and low life satisfaction and happiness were related to early sexual debut.

FAMILY SIZE AND CHILDREN’S EDUCATION IN MATLAB, BANGLADESH

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABDUR RAZZAQUE ◽  
PETER KIM STREATFIELD ◽  
ANN EVANS
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Head Of Household ◽  
The Family ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Summary.This study examines the relationship between family size and children’s education in Bangladesh for two periods – 1982 with high fertility and 1996 with low fertility – using data from the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System of the ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research. Children aged 8–17 years (27,448 in 1982 and 32,635 in 1996) were selected from households where the mother was aged 30–49 years and the father was the head of household. Children’s education was measured in terms of completed years of schooling: at least class 1 (among 8–17 year olds), at least class 5 (among 12–17 year olds) and at least class 7 (among 15–17 year olds). After controlling for all variables in the multivariate analyses, level of children’s education was not found to be associated with family size during the high fertility period. The family size–education relationship became negative during the low fertility period. In both periods children of educated mothers from wealthier households and those who lived close to primary/high schools had more education, but this socioeconomic difference reduced substantially over time. Boys had more education than girls during the high fertility period but this difference disappeared during the low fertility period. As birth rates fall and the proportion of children from small families increases an increase in children’s education is to be expected.

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