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Sexual Partners and Contraceptive Use: A 16‐Year Prospective Study Predicting Abstinence and Risk Behavior
Author(s) -
Siebenbruner Jessica,
ZimmerGembeck Melanie J.,
Egeland Byron
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2007.00518.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , abstinence , longitudinal study , biosocial theory , sexual behavior , clinical psychology , demography , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , personality , pathology , sociology
Antecedents and correlates of sexual behavior among 167 (46% female) adolescents were examined in this multi‐informant longitudinal study. Data were collected at birth through middle adolescence. Data on number of sexual partners and contraception use at age 16 defined sexual abstinence (SAs, n =73), high‐risk sexual behavior (HRTs, n =45) and low‐risk sexual behavior (LRTs, n =49) groups. Moffitt's (1993) antisocial behavior taxonomy, problem behavior theory (Jessor & Jessor, 1977), social control theory (Hierschi), and a biosocial model (Udry, 1988) guided expectations of differential group prediction. Variables from each of three developmental periods (