Black Adolescent Females: A Comparison of Early versus Late Coital Initiators

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The Strong African American Families Program: Longitudinal Pathways to Sexual Risk Reduction

“…Although moderate peer orientation is normative and helps adolescents to establish autonomy as they make the transition to adulthood [19], some youth become excessively peer oriented, to the extent that they abandon family values and personal strengths to gain popularity [20]. Because young people value sexual activity as a sign of maturity [19], peer orientation may be a particularly powerful source of risk in this domain. Indeed, previous research has found peer orientation to be associated with risky sexual attitudes and behavior [21].…”

“…It has been suggested that because peer acceptance is highly salient during adolescence, youth who are reliant on friends for validation of self-worth may be at greater risk [18]. Although moderate peer orientation is normative and helps adolescents to establish autonomy as they make the transition to adulthood [19], some youth become excessively peer oriented, to the extent that they abandon family values and personal strengths to gain popularity [20]. Because young people value sexual activity as a sign of maturity [19], peer orientation may be a particularly powerful source of risk in this domain.…”

Religion and Health: Public Health Research and Practice

“…Other religious-involvement factors (e.g. service attendance and importance) have been studied in relation to alcohol, tobacco, and drug use (9,47,50,53,78,86,89,178) and adolescent sexual behavior and contraceptive use (7,26,136,155,164,174). Religious factors are associated with lower levels of behavioral risk such as alcohol use (2,45) and higher levels of health-promoting behaviors (e.g.…”

Character as a Predictor of Reproductive Health Outcomes for Youth: A Systematic Review

“…There is insufficient evidence to generalize our finding for either prosocial norms or spirituality as protective factors to other races/ethnicities. [152,46,100,138,[159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173] 12 c [38,153,161,163,167,174,175] [122,155,[188][189][190][191][192][193][194] 6 c [123,155,162,193,195] Use of contraception 2 a [196] 1 a [196] 9 ab [15,24,124,125,158,196] 4 c [56,…”