Religion and Sexual Risk Taking in Youth

宗教与青少年的性冒险

• 批准号: 7034237
• 负责人: James J. Jaccard
• 金额: $ 20.34万
• 依托单位: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-19 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7034237
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; child rearing; gender difference; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human data; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; racial /ethnic difference; religion; sex behavior; social behavior; social model; social psychology; young adult human (21-34); adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; child rearing; gender difference; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human data; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; racial /ethnic difference; religion; sex behavior; social behavior; social model; social psychology; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the central role that religion plays in the lives of the American public, relatively few carefully controlled and theoretically cogent analysis have been undertaken to examine its impact on sexual risk taking in American youth. The present research is an analysis of a secondary data base, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), that examines the impact of religion and religiosity on sexual risk taking of a nationally representative sample of adolescents as they transition to young adulthood. It is a longitudinal analysis of approximately 15,000 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 who were interviewed at three points in time, during adolescence (twice with a one year interval between interviews) and again in young adulthood, some seven years later. The overall goals of the research are (1) to evaluate models of the causal influence of religious beliefs/orientations and religious behavior on sexual risk taking during young adulthood and adolescence, identifying both moderators and mediators of those effects, (2) to evaluate if the effects of religiosity on sexual risk behavior weaken with the onset of first intercourse or if the magnitude of the effects remain constant after first intercourse has occurred, (3) to evaluate models that consider the possibility that the direction of causal influence is opposite to what is commonly presumed, namely that increased sexual activity on the part of an adolescent weakens his or her commitment to religion rather than increased commitments to religion decreasing the likelihood of sexual activity , (4) to test if the social psychological correlates of adolescent sexual behavior are the same for adolescents who attend church/synagogue on a regular basis when compared with those who do not, (5) to explore the influences of religious orientations and practices during adolescence on sexual risk taking seven years later, during early adulthood, (6) to examine the interplay between maternal and adolescent religiosity as determinants of adolescent sexual risk taking and (7) to explore gender, age and ethnic differences in the above.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管宗教在美国公众的生活中发挥了核心作用，但已经进行了相对较少的精心控制和理论上有说服力的分析，以研究其对美国青年的性风险的影响。本研究是对二级数据基础的分析，即国家青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health），该研究研究了宗教和宗教信仰对在过渡到年轻成年期的全国代表性的青少年样本中对性风险的影响。这是对7至12年级的大约15,000名青少年的纵向分析，他们在青春期（两次访谈之间的一年间隔一年间隔两次）和大约七年后的年轻人成年后接受采访。这项研究的总体目标是（1）评估宗教信仰/取向和宗教行为对在成年和青春期期间发生性风险的因果影响的模型，确定这些影响的调节者和调解人（（2），评估宗教努力对性风险行为对性风险行为的影响是否不断降低了模型的不断效果，或者是第一次对造成效果的不断效果（如果是偶然性的效果），那么（如果效果的效果不断），那么（如果效果均不断发生），那么（如果效果的效果）（即因果影响方向的方向与通常假定的可能性相反，即，青少年的性活动增加了他或她对宗教的承诺，而不是增加对宗教的承诺，而不是增加性活动的可能性，（4）测试对青少年性行为的社会性行为是否与教会的社会相关的人相同，那些与教会的社会相关性相同，那些人不在教会中，而不是对那些do conseg的态度，而不是在教会中，那些人不适合与宗教相关的态度。七年后（6）在青少年期间，宗教取向和实践对性风险的影响，以研究母体和青少年宗教信仰之间的相互作用，作为青少年性风险服用的决定因素，以及（7）探索上述性别，年龄和种族差异。