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The Sexual Risk Avoidance National Evaluation: Coregulation from the Perspective of Youth. Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation. Brief. OPRE Brief 2023-276
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Caroline O’Callahan; Lauren Tingey; Heather Zaveri – Administration for Children & Families, 2023
Self-regulation is a set of skills that a person develops to manage their thoughts and feelings to support tasks such as setting goals, solving problems, and making decisions. Adults can support the development of youth's self-regulation skills through a process called co-regulation. Co-regulation integrates three key types of support from adults:…
Descriptors: Self Management, Skill Development, Adults, Role
Mother-Daughter Communication about Sexual Maturation, Abstinence and Unintended Pregnancy: Experiences from an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
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Crichton, Joanna; Ibisomi, Latifat; Gyimah, Stephen Obeng – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Parental communication and support is associated with improved developmental, health and behavioral outcomes in adolescence. This study explores the quality of mother-daughter communication about sexual maturation, abstinence and unintended pregnancy in Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We use data from 14 focus group…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Focus Groups, Pregnancy
From Racial Discrimination to Risky Sex: Prospective Relations Involving Peers and Parents
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Roberts, Megan E.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Weng, Chih-Yuan; Murry, Velma M.; Simons, Leslie G.; Simons, Ronald L.; Lorenz, Frederick O. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study investigated how early experience with racial discrimination affected the subsequent risky sexual behaviors of a diverse sample of African American youths (N = 745). The analyses focused on 3 risk-promoting factors thought to mediate the hypothesized discrimination--risky sex relation: negative affect, affiliation with deviant peers,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Youth, Structural Equation Models, Racial Discrimination
Toward a Theory of Adolescent Dating.
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McCabe, Marita P. – Adolescence, 1984
Considers forces which influence the behavior of adolescents during dating, and traces changes in dating patterns. The main areas of influence during dating are seen as physiological changes, social pressures, and the personal meaning attributed to these forces in the individual's striving toward maturity. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns
Religious Participation and Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Attitudes.
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Thornton, Arland; Camburn, Donald – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Analyzed longitudinal survey data for relationship between adolescent sexuality and adolescents' religious affiliation and participation among Detroit area families (N=916). Confirmed previous findings which showed strong correlation between religious involvement and adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, i.e., religious adolescents had least…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior
Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach.
Romer, David, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers focuses on common influences that result in a number of interrelated risk behaviors, summarizing presentations and discussions from a recent conference at which a group of specialists from different health traditions synthesized current knowledge on the subject. There are 39 papers in four parts. Part 1, "Adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Blacks