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Zurcher, Jessica D. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2019
The role and functionality of injunctive norms is an understudied phenomenon within sexual communication processes. Using the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB), the present study examined emergent peer-oriented and authoritative injunctive norms as they relate to the context of parents discussing pornography with adolescent children.…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Parent Influence
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Rajhvajn Bulat, Linda; Ajdukovic, Marina; Ajdukovic, Dea – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Previous research has confirmed peers and parents as significant agents of socialisation with respect to young people's sexuality. The aim of this cross-sectional cohort study was to examine how parental and peer variables predict young women's sexual behaviour and sexuality-related thoughts and emotions, and whether perceived peer influences…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Adolescents, Peer Influence
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Bennett, Clare; Harden, Jane – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
Menarche is a significant milestone for young women, representing an important juncture between girlhood and maturation. The limited literature that exists suggests that a mother's reaction to her daughter's first periods can shape her experiences and perceptions of menstruation which, in turn, may impact on her self-image and, consequently,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Daughters, Physiology
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Chan, Siu Mui; Chan, Kwok-Wai – Youth & Society, 2013
Studies on factors affecting susceptibility to peer pressure are not plentiful although this susceptibility has been found to be associated with youth problems such as substance use and risky sexual behavior. The present study examined how adolescents' susceptibility to peer pressure is related to their relationships with mothers and emotional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Thompson, Martie P.; Koss, Mary P.; Kingree, J. B.; Goree, Jennifer; Rice, John – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the authors examined prospective associations of attitudes, norms, and control with sexual aggression (SA) perpetration 1 year later among male college students. Data were collected from 652 males via confidential, self-report surveys at the end of their 1st and 2nd years in college. Results…
Descriptors: Prevention, At Risk Persons, Aggression, Sexuality
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James, Jenee; Ellis, Bruce J.; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Garber, Judy – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The current study tested sex-specific pathways to early puberty, sexual debut, and sexual risk taking, as specified by an integrated evolutionary-developmental model of adolescent sexual development and behavior. In a prospective study of 238 adolescents (n = 129 girls and n = 109 boys) followed from approximately 12-18 years of age, we tested for…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Puberty, Fatherless Family
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Connell, Catherine; Elliott, Sinikka – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2009
This article reviews the literature on the roles that schools, peers, and parents play in young people's sexuality education. We argue that the sexuality education children receive is far from just the facts; rather, it is an education in the maintenance of inequality. Sexuality education, as it is currently conceived, includes implicit and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Literature Reviews, School Role
Lamberts, Martha Bullock; Robin, Ellen Page – 1982
Although it is now widely recognized that the middle years are a time of development and transition rather than of stasis followed by decline, existing literature tends to portray middle-aged women as generally unattractive, uninteresting, unintelligent and as dependent "labels" rather than persons in the process of growth. To gain a greater…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Cohort Analysis, Family Influence, Females