Religiosity and risky sexual behavior in African-American adolescent females

McCree, Donna Hubbard; Wingood, Gina M.; DiClemente, Ralph J.; Davies, Susan L.; Harrington, Kathy

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(02)00460-3

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“…Religious male and female adolescents are more likely to delay first intercourse according to Rostosky et al [24] and Hardy and Rafelli [25]. This finding stands for the subgroup, religious African-American adolescent females, who are also more likely to use condoms than their less religious counterparts [26]. Viewing religion as important positively relates to intent to use condoms for sexually experienced never-married men aged 15-19 [27].…”

Section: Religion and Family Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 95%

AIDS education, condom demand, and the sexual activity of American youth

Tremblay

Ling

2005

Health Economics

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This paper examines the effects of AIDS education at school and at home on the sexual behavior of American youth. Multinomial logit equations of the probabilities of abstinence, sexual intercourse with a condom, and intercourse without a condom are estimated using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Supplement of the 1992 National Health Interview Survey. We find no significant effects of AIDS education on the probability of abstinence, but we do find that AIDS education significantly raises the likelihood of condom-protected relative to unprotected intercourse. These results indicate that risk-altering and risk-revealing AIDS education dominate any utility-altering effects favoring intercourse over abstinence. We also find that young women are influenced by AIDS education to a greater extent than young men. Overall, our results suggest that educating young people about AIDS does not promote sex and encourages safer sex, reducing the likelihood of HIV transmission and lowering the subsequent social costs.

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Section: Religion and Family Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 95%

AIDS education, condom demand, and the sexual activity of American youth

Tremblay

Ling

2005

Health Economics

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“…These results correspond to the current study's QUAN findings obtained from the Values and Beliefs subscale of the BMMRS, which indicate these women's increased orientation to engage in behaviors that are encouraged by their faith. Previous research indicates that religiosity has demonstrated a positive influence on younger AAW's sexual health outcomes (McCree, Wingood, DiClemente, Davies, & Harrington, 2003). However, in the current study, relationships between spirituality/religiosity and both of the study's outcome variables, sexual health and sexual risk behavior, were not statistically significant.…”

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confidence: 94%

Factors Associated with African American Women’s Sexual Health and Risk Behavior: A Mixed Methods Study

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“…Most research supported that adolescents who were more religious tended to delay sexual activity (Kirby 2002;Rostosky et al 2004). For male and female teens, frequent attendance at religious services and religious youth activities, higher levels of importance of religion in daily life and religious feelings, and increased adherence to religious teachings were all significantly related to decreased rates of voluntary sexual debut (Fehring et al 1998;Holder et al 2000;Lammers et al 2000;Lefkowitz et al 2004;McCree et al 2003;Nonnemaker et al 2003;Rostosky et al 2003). Having increased levels of social support from friends in a faith context was related to decreased likelihood of sexual initiation as was having peers who attended church regularly (Holder et al 2000;Manlove et al 2008;Mott et al 1996).…”

Section: Religiositymentioning

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The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Haglund

Fehring

2009

J Relig Health

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Abstract:This study examined the association of religiosity, sexual education and family structure with risky sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults. The nationally representative sample, from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, included 3,168 women and men ages 15-21 years. Those who viewed religion as very important, had frequent church attendance, and held religious sexual attitudes were 27-54% less likely to have had sex and had significantly fewer sex partners than peers. Participants whose formal and parental sexual education included abstinence and those from two-parent families were 15% less likely to have had sex and had fewer partners.

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Religiosity and risky sexual behavior in African-American adolescent females

Cited by 176 publications

References 18 publications

AIDS education, condom demand, and the sexual activity of American youth

AIDS education, condom demand, and the sexual activity of American youth

Factors Associated with African American Women’s Sexual Health and Risk Behavior: A Mixed Methods Study

The Association of Religiosity, Sexual Education, and Parental Factors with Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults

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