A Study on the Relationship between Risk Behaviors, Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual Experience in Male High School Students

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Suk Mo ◽  
Hyun-Ei Oh ◽  
Euna Cho
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Male High School ◽  
The Relationship

Sports, Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy among Female and Male High School Students: Testing Cultural Resource Theory

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen E. Miller ◽  
Michael P. Farrell ◽  
Donald F. Sabo ◽  
Grace M. Barnes ◽  
Merrill J. Melnick
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Athletic Participation ◽  
Resource Theory ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Male High School

In this paper, we examine the relationships among athletic participation and sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and pregnancy in female and male high school students. Analyses of covariance and multiple analyses of covariance were performed on a nationally representative sample of 8,979 high school students (the 1995 Youth Risk Behavior Survey). After controlling for race and ethnicity, age, and mother’s education, girls who participated in sports had lower rates of sexual experience, fewer sex partners, later age of first intercourse, higher rates of contraceptive use, and lower rates of past pregnancy than girls who did not participate. Male high school athletes reported higher rates of sexual experience and more partners than nonathletes, but—like their female counterparts—were also more likely to have used birth control during their most recent intercourse. Cultural resource theory suggests that athletic participation may reduce girls’ adherence to conventional cultural scripts while providing them with additional social and personal resources on which to draw in the sexual bargaining process. Sports provides boys with similar resources while strengthening their commitment to traditional masculine scripts.

scholarly journals Relationship among Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual Behavior of Junior High School Students in West Jakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Putra Brillian Djohan ◽  
Francisca Tjhay ◽  
Surilena Hasan ◽  
Nelly Tina Widjaja
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
School Students

<p class="Englishversionofabstract">Lack of sexual knowledge and increasing negative sexual attitudes in Indonesia could lead to risky sexual behavior. This problem increases teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and abortion among adolescents. This study aimed to determine the relationship between sexual knowledge and sexual attitudes towards sexual behavior among junior high school students in West Jakarta. This study was cross-sectional, conducted on 544 junior high school students in West Jakarta. Measuring instruments used were characteristic questionnaires, sexual knowledge questionnaires, sexual attitude questionnaires, and sexual behavior questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using bivariate (chi-square). This study shows 79.2% of the respondents had low sexual knowledge, 45.6% respondents had negative sexual behavior, and 48.2% respondents had risky sexual behavior. This study finds that most male respondents had low sexual knowledge (80.8%), low sexual attitude (56.8%), and “less-safe” risky sexual behavior (60.0%), while “not-safe” risky sexual behavior (2.7%) was found higher in female respondents. Bivariate analysis shows a significant relationship between sexual knowledge (p=0.006; 95% OR=1.763 |95% CI=1.151-2.698) and sexual attitude (p=&lt;0.001; OR=2.852 | 95% CI=2.012-4.043) towards sexual behavior. In conclusion, low sexual knowledge and negative sexual attitudes increase the risk of risky sexual behavior.</p>

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