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A social psychology of problem behavior was employed to account for variation in an aspect of development—the transition from virginity to nonvirginity. Personality, perceived environment, and behavioral measures were collected by questionnaires administered annually to high school and college males and females. In cross-sectional comparisons, nonvirgins differed from virgins in the theoretically expected transition-prone direction, including higher value on independence, lower value on achievement, greater social criticism and tolerance of deviance, and greater friends’ models for deviance. In longitudinal comparisons, virgins who were to become non-virgins in the subsequent year were already significantly more transition-prone on these antecedent measures than virgins who were to remain virgins. The results were stronger at the high school than at the college level, and for females than for males. |
