Sentences with phrase «early sexual initiation»

Analysis of the recent National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 35 a nationally representative sample of school - attending adolescents, indicated that contact between parents and adolescents is a major protective factor for a wide range of risk behaviors, including early sexual initiation.

Predictors of early sexual initiation among a nationally representative sample of Nigerian adolescents

African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

These findings suggest that increased parental monitoring may be a much less effective strategy in settings where early sexual initiation is common.

However, these studies were not conducted with adolescents in high - poverty urban settings, where early sexual initiation is more normative than in lower - poverty settings.20 In a high - risk sample of African American youths aged 9 to 15 years, Romer et al21 found that parental monitoring was related only to very early sexual initiation (aged ≤ 10 years) and not to subsequent initiation of sex or condom use.

Early Sexual Initiation and Mental Health: A Fleeting Association or Enduring Change?.

Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance of violence, early sexual initiation, coercive sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior sexual victimization or perpetration.

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Overall, an earlier age at menstruation was associated with an earlier age of sexual initiation, age at pregnancy, and first live birth.

Experts recommend that age - appropriate SRH education be started early in schools, well before sexual initiation.

We explore whether such experiences are independent risk factors for IPV victimization and perpetration, even when accounting for aggressive behaviors and related risk taking, including drinking and sexual initiation, during early adolescence.