Understanding sexual abstinence among high school students

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dc.contributor.advisorEdmundson, Elizabeth Walston, 1959-
dc.creatorGrozier, Michelle Rene
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-22T20:38:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:41Z
dc.date.available2017-02-22T20:38:30Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:41Z
dc.date.issued2007-05
dc.description.abstractPoliticians, scientists, and the general public all agree that adolescent sexuality has become a crisis in the United States. The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Study reports that 46.8% of high school students have had sex and approximately 1 in 5 high school seniors reporting 4 or more sexual partners. Additionally, adolescents make up an estimated 25% of newly reported cases of STDs. Unfortunately, credible research on why sexually abstinent adolescents remain abstinent is minimal. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between sexually active and sexually abstinent adolescents across a range of psychosocial factors. Selfefficacy to abstain, partner negotiation, condom use/negotiation, social norms, attitudes towards sex and condoms, beliefs about sex and condoms, knowledge, social support for condoms and sex, alcohol consumption, and HIV acquaintances. In addition, gender differences were explored for given reasons for abstinence. These variables included morals, norms, fears, waiting for the right person, waiting until older, embarrassment of having sex, fear of pain, and not having a significant other. Using cross sectional data collected from Safer Choices Time 3 measurement period during 1997. Results indicated the differences between abstinent and sexually active adolescents across the range of psychosocial variables were weak. Significant differences between abstinent males and females were noted for reasons for being sexually abstinent. Gender differences should be addressed in sex education programs.en_US
dc.description.departmentKinesiology and Health Educationen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2R49GF3R
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/45756
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectAdolescent sexualityen_US
dc.subjectSexual abstinenceen_US
dc.subjectGender differencesen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding sexual abstinence among high school studentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US

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