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Pubertal Development, Parental Communication, and Sexual Values in Relation to Adolescent Sexual Behaviors
Brent C. Miller
Utah State University
Maria C. Norton
Utah State University
Xitao Fan
Utah State University
Cynthia R. Christopherson
Utah State University
There is great interest in understanding adolescent sexual behavior because of its links to unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. This study's purpose was to analyze biological and social antecedents of adolescent sexual intentions and behaviors, including age, pubertal development, quality of parent/adolescent communication, and adolescent sexual values. Analyses were based on longitudinal data collected in 1991, 1992, and 1993 from 473 families. Structural equation modeling was used to test direct and indirect effects among the time-ordered variables separately by gender Both for males and females, parent/adolescent communication quality was related positively to adolescent sexual abstinence values, abstinence values had a strong negative effect on sexual intentions, and sexual intentions had a significant positive effect on sexual behaviors. Parent/adolescent communication quality was related directly to sexual intentions measured 1 year later among females only. Early pubertal development, relative to same-age peers, was related directly to sexual behaviors of both genders.
The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 18, No. 1,
27-52 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431698018001002
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