Long - term effects of childhood
sexual violence include substance misuse,
early sexual debut, more
sexual partners, trading sex
for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial
for mental health, as well as
for sexual and reproductive health in this population.
In other words, exposure to sex in movies was associated with having more change in sensation - seeking personality in adolescence, which then was associated with
earlier sexual debut [See this post
for another example of a study with «mediation»].
For example,
early pubertal maturity may lead to
early sexual debut only when family members react to
early pubertal development in certain ways (e.g., with increased restrictiveness and supervision).