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)

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着核心作用，但相对较少的仔细控制和理论上令人信服的分析来检验其对美国青少年性冒险的影响。本研究是对二级数据库——国家青少年健康纵向研究（Add Health）的分析，该数据库研究了宗教和宗教信仰对具有全国代表性的青少年样本向成年早期过渡时的性冒险行为的影响。这是对大约 15,000 名 7 至 12 年级青少年的纵向分析，他们在三个时间点接受了采访：青春期（两次采访间隔一年）和大约七年后的成年青年期。该研究的总体目标是（1）评估宗教信仰/取向和宗教行为对青年期和青春期性冒险行为的因果影响模型，确定这些影响的调节因素和中介因素，（2）评估是否宗教信仰对性危险行为的影响随着第一次性行为的开始而减弱，或者如果影响的大小在第一次性行为发生后保持不变，（3）评估考虑因果影响方向可能性的模型与通常的假设相反，即青少年增加的性活动削弱了他或她对宗教的承诺，而不是增加对宗教的承诺减少了性活动的可能性，（4）测试社会心理是否与以下因素相关：定期去教堂/犹太教堂的青少年与不去教堂/犹太教堂的青少年的青少年性行为是相同的，(5) 探讨青春期宗教取向和实践对七年后成年早期性冒险的影响, (6) 研究母亲和青少年宗教信仰之间的相互作用作为青少年性冒险的决定因素；(7) 探讨上述方面的性别、年龄和种族差异。