scholarly journals Extended-Family Talk about Sex and Teen Sexual Behavior

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Grossman ◽  
Alicia D. Lynch ◽  
Amanda M. Richer ◽  
Lisette M. DeSouza
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Sexuality Communication

Research shows that family sexuality communication is protective for teens’ risky sexual behavior, but most studies on this topic focus exclusively on the parent–teen dyad. The few studies that assessed extended family sexuality communication use a single item to measure this communication and showed mixed results as to whether it is associated with sexual risk behaviors for teens. The current study included cross-sectional survey data from 952 teens in the 11th and 12th grades. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess associations between teens’ sexual risk behaviors and communication with extended family about protection methods, risks of sex and relational approaches to sex. Results showed that, for sexually active teens, talk about protection methods was associated with fewer sexual partners and talk about risks of sex was associated with more sexual partners, even after accounting for talk with parents about sex and controlling for teen gender, racial/ethnic background and mothers’ education. Results suggest that extended family talk with teens about sex might protect them from risky sexual behavior, over and above the effects of teen–parent communication. However, the direction of the effect depends on the content of the conversations. Talk about protection might support teens’ sexual health, while talk about risks of sex with teens who have already had sex, might not be effective. These findings suggest the need to explore whether and how extended family could be included in health prevention and intervention programs, which currently focus on parents.

scholarly journals Extended-Family Talk about Sex and Teen Sexual Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Grossman ◽  
Alicia D. Lynch ◽  
Amanda M. Richer ◽  
Lisette M. DeSouza ◽  
Ineke Ceder
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parent Communication ◽  
Close Relationship

Research shows that family communication about sexuality can protect against teens’ risky sexual behavior. However, few studies assess talk with extended family about sex or how this communication relates to teens’ sexual behavior. The current study includes cross-sectional survey data from 952 adolescents. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess associations between teens’ sexual risk behaviors and communication with extended family about protection methods, risks of sex and relational approaches to sex, defined as talk about sex within a close relationship. For sexually active teens, talk about protection methods was associated with fewer sexual partners and talk about risks of sex was associated with more sexual partners regardless of teen gender and the generation of extended family with whom teens talk. Results suggest that extended-family talk about sex may influence teens’ sexual behavior independent of effects of teen–parent communication. However, the direction of the effect depends on the content of the conversations. These findings suggest the need to explore whether and how extended family could be included in health prevention and intervention programs, because programs which include family largely focus on parents.

scholarly journals Adverse Childhood Environment: Relationship With Sexual Risk Behaviors and Marital Status in a Large American Sample

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 147470491771011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kermyt G. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Childhood Environment ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Hiv Test

A substantial theoretical and empirical literature suggests that stressful events in childhood influence the timing and patterning of subsequent sexual and reproductive behaviors. Stressful childhood environments have been predicted to produce a life history strategy in which adults are oriented more toward short-term mating behaviors and less toward behaviors consistent with longevity. This article tests the hypothesis that adverse childhood environment will predict adult outcomes in two areas: risky sexual behavior (engagement in sexual risk behavior or having taken an HIV test) and marital status (currently married vs. never married, divorced, or a member of an unmarried couple). Data come from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The sample contains 17,530 men and 23,978 women aged 18–54 years living in 13 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia. Adverse childhood environment is assessed through 11 retrospective measures of childhood environment, including having grown up with someone who was depressed or mentally ill, who was an alcoholic, who used or abused drugs, or who served time in prison; whether one’s parents divorced in childhood; and two scales measuring childhood exposure to violence and to sexual trauma. The results indicate that adverse childhood environment is associated with increased likelihood of engaging in sexual risk behaviors or taking an HIV test, and increased likelihood of being in an unmarried couple or divorced/separated, for both men and women. The predictions are supported by the data, lending further support to the hypothesis that childhood environments influence adult reproductive strategy.

scholarly journals Father 2 Son: The Impact of African American Father–Son Sexual Communication on African American Adolescent Sons’ Sexual Behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155798831880472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allyssa L. Harris ◽  
Heidi Collins Fantasia ◽  
Courtney E. Castle
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Adolescent Males ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Condom Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child

Parent–child sexual communication has been associated with reducing adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Limited research on parent–child sexual communication has been conducted on African American (AA) adolescent males who are at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this research was to examine AA father–son sexual communication and the effect of contextual factors on the sexual risk behaviors. The final sample consisted of 96 AA adolescent males, ages 16–21 years. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the variables of interest (neighborhood characteristics, father–son closeness and connectedness, father–son communication, sexual permissiveness, condom attitudes, sexual risk behaviors). A path model was developed and tested. Results demonstrated that AA father–son closeness and connectedness were related to father–son communication. AA father–son communication was negatively related to sons’ permissiveness and positively related to condom attitudes. Sons’ permissiveness positively predicted their sexual risk behaviors. AA sons’ condom attitudes did not negatively or positively predict their sexual risk behaviors. The findings from this study demonstrate that AA father–son communication is an important factor in decreasing AA adolescent males’ sexual risk behaviors and HIV risk.

Associations Between Endorsement of Inequitable Gender Norms and Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Youth in Nigeria: Violence Against Children Survey, 2014

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052097819
Author(s):  
Leah K. Gilbert ◽  
Francis B. Annor ◽  
Howard Kress
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Violence Against Children

The purpose of this study was to assess whether the endorsement of inequitable gender norms about intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and sexual behavior was associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, IPV perpetration, and sexual risk behavior. Nigerian youth aged 13–24 ( n = 4,203) participated in the nationally representative, cross-sectional Nigeria Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) in 2014. Inequitable gender norms about IPVAW were assessed using six items from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and inequitable gender norms about sexual behavior were assessed using four items adapted from the Gender-Equitable Men (GEM) scale. The number of inequitable gender norms endorsed was summed and associations with having been a victim or perpetrator of IPV and sexual risk behaviors were assessed using logistic regression. Endorsing 3 or more inequitable gender norms about either IPVAW or sexual behavior were both associated with increased odds of IPV victimization, perpetration, and sexual risk behaviors, after adjustment for demographic characteristics, witnessing violence in childhood, and having been a victim of other forms of childhood violence. Demonstrating that endorsement of inequitable gender norms about sexual behavior was associated with violence and that inequitable gender norms about IPVAW were associated with sexual risk behaviors further highlights potential linkages between violence and HIV.

scholarly journals Meeting Sexual Partners Online and Associations With Sexual Risk Behaviors in the Swedish Population

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 2141-2147
Author(s):  
Charlotte Deogan ◽  
Elin Jacobsson ◽  
Louise Mannheimer ◽  
Charlotte Björkenstam
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Swedish Population

scholarly journals La problématique de la persistance des comportements sexuels à risque face au VIH/Sida chez les étudiants de l’Université Félix Houphouët- Boigny

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Kangah Orphée Michelle Alerte
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Prevention Interventions

This research starts from the observation that despite the implementation of numerous prevention interventions at the point of the student population of the Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, sexual risk behaviors persist. Thus, we asked ourselves about the causes of this persistence in a population supposed to be more receptive to awareness messages given their level of education. According to the research hypothesis, the persistence of risky sexual behavior among university students of the Félix Houphouet-Boigny University depends on the combination of certain socio-cultural and economic factors. So, a crosssectional study was conducted and data was collected through a questionnaire, a semi-directive interview guide and an observation grid. Identified key factors are the magical-religious beliefs, aggressive propaganda images, sensual and pornographic scenes and difficult socioeconomic conditions of live.

scholarly journals Father–Teen Talks about Sex and Teens’ Sexual Health: The Role of Direct and Indirect Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9760
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Grossman ◽  
Lisette M. DeSouza ◽  
Amanda M. Richer ◽  
Alicia D. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexual Values

Family talks about sex can protect against teens’ risky sexual behavior, but most research has focused on the role of mothers. The current study included cross-sectional survey data from 728 adolescents in the 11th and 12th grades (Mage = 17.00, SD = 0.90) in the United States. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess associations between teens’ direct and indirect talk, defined as less straightforward ways to communicate one’s sexual values, with fathers about sex, and teens’ sexual behaviors. There were no significant direct associations between father–teen talk about sex and teens’ sexual behavior. However, teen gender moderated associations between indirect father–teen communication and teens’ sexual behavior. The results suggest the need to assess indirect talk about sex in studies of family sexuality communication and to further investigate the role of teens’ identities in determining the influence of father–teen talk about sex on teens’ sexual behavior.

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