Parent-Adolescent Sexual Attitude Congruence in Relation to Adolescent Sexual Intercourse Experience
Date of Award:
5-1987
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Brent C. Miller
Committee
Brent C. Miller
Abstract
Survey data from 472 adolescents (ages 14-19) and their parents were analyzed to examine the relationship that existed between the premarital sexual attitudes of parents and the sexual behavior of their adolescents. The attitudes of the adolescents and their parents were measured using Likert type questions about sexual Intercourse prior to marriage. The sexual behavior of adolescents was based on the responses of the adolescents regarding their frequency of necking, petting, and sexual Intercourse. The relationship between adolescents' sexual behavior and parents' attitudes was examined using several different conceptual models. The amount of attitude agreement that mothers and fathers had with one another - as well as with their adolescent - was significant to understanding the contribution parents had on adolescents' sexual behavior. The direction of parent-adolescent attitude agreement and husband-wife attitude agreement was also found Important In understanding how congruence functioned.
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Recommended Citation
McCoy, John Kelly, "Parent-Adolescent Sexual Attitude Congruence in Relation to Adolescent Sexual Intercourse Experience" (1987). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2695.
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