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Adolescent sexual activity in the family context: The impact of older siblings

Author(s) -

R. Jean Haurin,

Frank Luther Mott

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061569

Subject(s) - sibling , brother , sister , psychology , demography , sexual intercourse , national longitudinal surveys , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , sibling relationship , salience (neuroscience) , population , sociology , demographic economics , biology , paleontology , anthropology , economics , cognitive psychology

Using approximately 2,000 sibling pairs from the ab] National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth, we examine the influence of an older sibling’s age at first sexual intercourse on the sexual initiation of a younger sibling. Hypotheses about differences by gender composition of the pair are tested, using a framework derived from social comparison theory and a two-stage failure-time model. Results provide evidence of a direct but modest-sized older sibling effect for white but not black youth. This effect is approximately equal in magnitude for same- and oppositesex siblings. Little support is offered for the greater salience and association of sexual activity for brother-brother as compared with sister-sister pairs.

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