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Adolescents' Views of Sexual Decision‐Making
Author(s) -
Keller Mary L.,
Duerst Barbara L.,
Zimmerman Janet
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1996.tb01204.x
Subject(s) - gratification , vignette , sexual intercourse , psychology , condom , abstinence , feeling , pleasure , social psychology , sexual behavior , developmental psychology , safer sex , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , medicine , population , psychiatry , family medicine , psychotherapist , syphilis , sociology
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the reasons adolescents give for abstinence, safer sex, and unprotected sexual intercourse. Participants were 7 7 5 high school students living in a midwestern state; average age was 17.5 years. Students completed a two‐part questionnaire about (a) their expectations for the outcome of a vignette in which two teenagers had the opportunity for intercourse and (b) their ideas about the reasons, thoughts, and feelings associated with three possible endings to the vignetteabstinence, intercourse with a condom, unprotected intercourse. Content analysis of responses indicated that four interconnected factors are significant contributors to sexual behavior: social norms, fear, gratification or pleasure, and availability of condoms.