Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior Among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients  

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Erickson, Pamela I. ; Reyes, Maria Juarez ; Kaplan, Celia P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Adolescent Research (http://jar.sagepub.com/) vol. 17 no. 2 (Mar. 2002), page 103-121.
Topik: gender role; acculturation; gender role orientation; reproductive; risk taking behaviour; planning clients
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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ81.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The article explores the influence of demogarphic, sociostructural and risk proneness indicators on age at first intercourse, number of lifetime sexual partners, and numbers of prepancies in a sample of 670 latina adolescents age 14 -19 recruited from two publicly funded family planning clinincs. Acculturation accounted for a small but statistically significant amount of the variation explained for all three reproductive behaviours. Being less acculturated was associated with older age at initiation of sexual intercourse, fewer lifetime sexual partners, and fewer pregnancies. Substance experimentation was associated with earlier sexual debut and more sexual partners but with fewer pregnancies. Gender role orientation was significant only for age at first itnercourse. More traditional young women were older at sexual debut. These results suggest that gender role orientation is important for delaying first intercourse, but once sexually active, acculturation and substance experimentation become more important influences on sexual risk taking among latina adolescents.

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