PARENT-ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIPS AND ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY: CLOSENESS, COMMUNICATION, AND COMFORT AMONG DIVERSE U.S. ADOLESCENT SAMPLES

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl L. Somers ◽  
Whitney L. Vollmar
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Adolescent Sexuality ◽  
Adolescent Relationships ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Suburban High Schools ◽  
Sexual Outcomes ◽  
Paternal Parent

This study examined the role of American adolescents' perceptions of both maternal and paternal parent-adolescent closeness, communication about sexuality, and comfort with sexual communication in a diverse sample of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors. Participants included 672 adolescents (231 males, 413 females, 28 unreported) in the 9th to 12th grades of three public urban and suburban high schools, of varying socioeconomic status, approximately one third each of African-American, Caucasian, and Hispanic. Maternal variables significantly explained modest amounts of variance in sexual outcomes; paternal variables were less significant. Subgroup patterns revealed both similarities and uniqueness, in some groups explaining relatively large proportions of variance.

Single women’s sexualities across the life course: The role of major events, transitions, and turning points

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 226-251
Author(s):  
Lisa R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Major Life Events ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Life Course Studies ◽  
And Behaviors

Most research on women’s sexualities focuses on a single event or developmental period, often failing to document romantic and sexual trajectories over time. Moreover, life course studies of sexuality have not exclusively examined single women, including major life events that may alter their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Using life story interview data with 60 single, heterosexual women between the ages of 18 and 91, I document five common pathways through romantic and sexual life, including opting out of marital relationships, the development of sexual subjectivity, sexual exploration and maintaining independence, sex positivity and increases in sexual communication, and a maintenance of sexual conservatism. The findings also reveal the role of domestic violence, sexual abuse, relationship dissolution, sexually transmitted illnesses, and menopause in altering sexual attitudes and behaviors. This study has several implications for life course studies of intimate relationships and sexuality.

The Role of Friends and Peers in Emerging Adults’ Sexual Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 274-294
Author(s):  
Haylee K. DeLuca Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Relationship Context

Friends and peers play an important role in emerging adults’ sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors. This chapter highlights how friends and peers provide a context for interacting with sexual partners and engaging in activities, such as drinking alcohol, that make sexual behavior more likely. Furthermore, this chapter discusses how friends and peers help emerging adults interpret their sexual experiences through social norms and communication. In addition, the chapter provides recommendations for future research investigating how friends and peers impact emerging adults’ sexual attitudes and behaviors, including how peer influence differs across time, based on relationship context or based on individual characteristics, such as gender, sexual orientation, college status, and cultural background.

The Role of Sexual Communication in Couples’ Sexual Outcomes: A Dyadic Path Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam C. Jones ◽  
W. David Robinson ◽  
Ryan B. Seedall
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Sexual Outcomes

The Hormonal Underpinnings of Sexual Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-260
Author(s):  
Amanda Denes ◽  
Anuraj Dhillon ◽  
Ambyre L. P. Ponivas ◽  
Kara L. Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Receptor Gene ◽  
Oxytocin Receptor ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Oxytocin Receptor Gene ◽  
Broad Domain ◽  
Relational Outcomes

Sexual communication is a pivotal part of interpersonal relationships; recent research reveals associations between sexual communication and various relational outcomes. Within the broad domain of sexual communication, current scholarship specifically addresses the role of postsex communication in relationships and its links to physiological and genetic markers. Given these advancements, the present chapter offers an overview of research linking physiology, hormones, and genes to communication after sexual activity. The chapter first presents reviews of two key hormones in sexual communication research: testosterone (T) and oxytocin (O). The oxytocin receptor gene and its link to social behavior broadly, and sexual behavior specifically, is also explored. The chapter then offers a review of several theories relevant to understanding the hormonal underpinnings of sexual communication, as well as future directions for research exploring sexual communication and physiology.

Parasites and promiscuity: Acute disease salience leads to more restricted sexual attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110309
Author(s):  
James B. Moran ◽  
Nicholas Kerry ◽  
Jin X. Goh ◽  
Damian R. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Acute Disease ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

How does disease threat influence sexual attitudes and behaviors? Although research on the influence of disease threat on social behavior has grown considerably, the relationship between perceived disease threat and sexual attitudes remains unclear. The current preregistered study (analyzed N = 510), investigated how experimental reminders of disease threat influence attitudes and anticipated future behaviors pertaining to short-term sexual relationships, using an ecologically valid disease prime. The central preregistered prediction was that experimental manipulation of disease threat would lead to less favorable attitudes and inclinations toward sexual promiscuity. Results were consistent with this preregistered prediction, relative to both a neutral control condition and a non-disease threat condition. These experimental results were buttressed by the finding that dispositional variation in worry about disease threat predicted less favorable attitudes and inclinations toward short-term sexual relationships. This study represents the first preregistered investigation of the implications of acute disease threat for sexual attitudes.

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