Sexual Behavior during the Transition to Adulthood and Associated Health Outcomes

成年过渡期间的性行为及相关健康结果

• 批准号: 9529040
• 负责人: Abigail Mae Weitzman
• 金额: $ 7.73万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9529040
• 关键词: 19 year old; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent and Young Adult; Adult; Affect; Attention; Attitude; Back; Baseline Surveys; Behavior; Characteristics; Childhood; Conflict (Psychology); Consequentialism; County; Data; Data Sources; Decision Making; Education; Employment; Enrollment; Fertility; Health; Health Campaign; Heterogeneity; Individual; Intention; Investigation; Knowledge; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Experience; Measures; Mediation; Michigan; Modeling; Outcome; Perception; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Poverty; Pregnancy; Probability; Public Health; Research; Respondent; Risk; Risk-Taking; Sampling; Sex Behavior; Sexual Health; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Shapes; Source; Time; United States; Update; Variant; Violence; Woman; adolescent sexual health; adult sexual behavior; college; density; early childhood; experience; family structure; high risk; insight; novel; outreach; prevent; public health relevance; risk perception; sex; sexual relationship; sexual risk taking; social; socioeconomics; theories; unintended pregnancy; willingness; young adult; young woman

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the proposed research is to provide one of the first in-depth analyses of sexual concurrency among young adult women in the United States. These analyses will include investigations into how childhood and adolescent experiences, changes in personal circumstances during the transition to adulthood, and the relationship dynamics of intimate partnerships each contribute to this behavior. Understanding the determinants of sexual concurrency is a key step toward understanding variation in sexual risk-taking more broadly, and is especially important to consider during late adolescence and the transition to adulthood, when risk-taking behaviors and sexual experimentation are concentrated. Currently, little research is available on sexual concurrency among young adult women. Those studies that do exist have been limited by the use of cross-sectional data and data collected at infrequent intervals. Such data sources introduce recall bias that may result in underreporting; and additionally prevent scholars from investigating how concurrency changes over time. In contrast, new data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study, featuring weekly data on the sexual activities of a racially and socioeconomically diverse, population- representative sample of young adult women, will allow the proposed study to address previously unanswered questions regarding sexual concurrency. The specific aims of this project will be to: (1) determine which childhood and adolescent experiences affect the likelihood of sexual concurrency and why (2) investigate how changes in personal circumstances such as enrolling in college or experiencing a pregnancy affect young women's changing likelihood of concurrency over time and (3) examine the relationship dynamics that contribute to young women's likelihood of concurrency. To meet these aims, the proposed study will draw on data from the RDSL study to combine time-varying information on young adults' sexual behavior, relationships, education, employment, and fertility, and static information on their childhood and adolescent experiences and on their attitudes toward sex and perceptions of sexual norms and risk. Fixed and random effects regression models will be used to assess how the probability of sexual concurrency differs both within and across women over a two and a half year period.

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的目的是对美国年轻成年女性的性行为进行首次深入分析。这些分析将包括对童年和青少年经历以及性行为变化的调查。向成年过渡期间的个人环境以及亲密伙伴关系的关系动态都有助于这种行为，了解性行为的决定因素是更广泛地理解性冒险变化的关键一步，并且在晚期考虑尤其重要。青春期和目前，关于年轻成年女性性行为的研究很少，但由于使用了横截面数据和不频繁收集的数据，因此存在局限性。此类数据源引入了回忆偏差，可能会导致漏报；相反，关系动态和社交生活（RDSL）研究的新数据包含有关性活动的每周数据。的一个种族和社会多样化、具有人口代表性的年轻成年女性样本，将使拟议的研究能够解决以前未解答的有关性行为并发的问题。该项目的具体目标是：（1）确定哪些童年和青少年经历影响可能性。以及为什么（2）调查个人环境的变化（例如上大学或怀孕）如何影响年轻女性随着时间的推移而发生性行为的可能性的变化，以及（3）研究导致年轻女性发生性行为的可能性的关系动态为了实现这些目标，拟议的研究将利用 RDSL 研究的数据，结合有关年轻人性行为、人际关系、教育、就业和生育的随时间变化的信息，以及有关他们童年和青少年经历的静态信息。将使用固定和随机效应回归模型来评估女性对性的态度以及对性规范和风险的看法，以评估女性内部和女性之间在两年半的时间内发生性行为的可能性有何不同。