Youth Assets and Associations With Adolescent Risk Taking
| Autor: | Gina Hofert, Barbara K. Sheppard, Lynne C. Messer, Corrie Halladay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adolescent
Sexual Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group Poison control Human sexuality Sex Education Education Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Risk-Taking 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy 030225 pediatrics Injury prevention Humans 030212 general & internal medicine health care economics and organizations media_common Teenage pregnancy Schools Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Abstinence Philosophy Adolescent Behavior Female Psychology Positive Youth Development |
| Zdroj: | Journal of School Health. 91:37-49 |
| ISSN: | 1746-1561 0022-4391 |
| Popis: | Background Positive youth development emphasizes that adaptive features of adolescence may contribute to teenage pregnancy prevention. Methods Using data from approximately 1300 seventh-ninth graders, we describe positive youth development assets (external and internal) and their association with sexual risk taking. School-, sex-, and race/ethnicity-stratified logistic or linear models assessed associations between developmental assets and 6 outcomes (continuous attitudes about teenage sex and marriage, abstinence intentions, and nonsexual risk-taking behavior; dichotomous high risk-dating behavior, friends' sexual activity, and prior sexual activity). Results Associations between developmental assets and youth sexual behavior differed by school, sex, and race/ethnicity. White female respondents showed the most consistent associations between higher amounts of each of the positive youth development assets and attitudes and behaviors conducive to delaying sexual activity while black youth showed the fewest associations. Conclusion These results contribute to the positive youth development literature by identifying that relationships between assets and adolescent risk differs by race and sex. |
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