Parental Influences on Young Adult Sexual Risk Behaviors

父母对年轻人性危险行为的影响

• 批准号: 7407169
• 负责人: Alida M Bouris
• 金额: $ 3.78万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-10 至 2009-09-09
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7407169
• 关键词: Parental; Influences; Young; Adult; Sexual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of the present research is to examine sexual risk behaviors in early adulthood in a nationally representative sample of young adults, and to relate these behaviors to a comprehensive range of parenting practices encountered during adolescence. The study will utilize data from Waves 1 and 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the largest longitudinal study of adolescents in the U.S.. Specifically, the proposed project will evaluate two competing theoretical perspectives. The first perspective posits that parenting practices during adolescence influence adolescent sexual behavior, which in turn influences young adult sexual behavior. This perspective suggests that parenting practices during adolescence indirectly influence sexual behavior during young adulthood through their direct influence on adolescent sexual behavior. In other words, adolescents whose decisions about sexual risk behavior are positively influenced by parenting practices make lower risk sexual decisions in young adulthood as a function of having made lower risk sexual decisions during adolescence. The second, theoretical perspective hypothesizes that parenting practices during adolescence influence sexual decision making in early adulthood not only through their indirect influence on adolescent sexual behavior, but also through their direct influence on sexual behavior in early adulthood. This perspective suggests that the total effect of parenting practices during adolescence on young adult sexual risk behavior is a combination of both an indirect effect (e.g., through adolescent sexual behavior) and a direct effect (e.g., independent of adolescent sexual behavior). Whereas the first perspective suggests that parental influences on young adult sexual behavior primarily work through their influence on adolescent sexual risk behavior, the second perspective proposes that parenting practices in adolescence may have unique and important implications for sexual decision making in early adulthood. The application of two competing theoretical perspectives is a novel approach to the study of sexual risk behaviors in young adults and has important public health implications for the development of parent-based prevention programs targeting the prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancies in adolescents and young adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的总体目的是在全国代表性的年轻人样本中检查成年初期的性风险行为，并将这些行为与青少年期间遇到的全面育儿做法联系起来。该研究将利用国家对青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health）的波浪1和3的数据，这是美国青少年最大的纵向研究。具体而言，拟议的项目将评估两个相互竞争的理论观点。第一个观点认为，青春期的育儿实践会影响青少年的性行为，这反过来影响了年轻的成人性行为。这种观点表明，青春期的育儿实践通过对青少年性行为的直接影响而在成年期间密切影响性行为。换句话说，关于性风险行为的决定对育儿做法的积极影响的青少年在成年期间的风险性决定较低，这是在青春期做出较低风险的性决定的函数。第二，理论观点假设，青春期的育儿做法不仅会因其对青少年性行为的间接影响，而且还通过成年初期对性行为的直接影响而影响成年初期的性决策。这种观点表明，青春期育儿实践对年轻成人性风险行为的总影响是间接效应（例如，通过青少年性行为）和直接效应（例如，独立于青少年性行为）的结合。尽管第一观点表明，父母对年轻成人性行为的影响主要是通过对青少年性风险行为的影响而起作用的，但第二观点表明，青春期的育儿实践可能对成年早期的性决策具有独特而重要的影响。两种相互竞争的理论观点的应用是一种研究年轻人性风险行为的一种新型方法，对针对预防艾滋病毒，性传播感染以及青少年和年轻人的无意外怀孕的基于父母的预防计划的发展具有重要的公共卫生影响。