2 Ocak 2015 Cuma

ADOLESCENCE Adolescent sexual behavior,


Adolescent sexual behavior,

Sexual literacy and sex education;
·      Adolescent can get information about sex from many sources; parents, sibling, schools, peers, magazines, television, and the internet.
·      A special concern is the accuracy of sexual information.
·      Many parents feel uncomfortable talking abour sex.
·      Many adolescents feel uncomfortable talking about sex.
·      Contraceptive use by female adolescents also increases when adolescents report that they can communicate about sex with their parents.
·      Adolescent are more likely to have conversation about sex with their mothers than their father.

Developing sexual identity;
·      Learning to menage sexual feelings, such as sexual arousal and attraction.
·      Developing new forms of intimacy, learning the skills to regulate sexual behavior.
·      Sexual identity involves an indication of sexual orientation.
·      Sexual identity is strongly influenced by social norms related to sex.

Sexual scripts;
·      Sexual script; A stereotyped pattern of role perceptions for how individuals should sexually behave.
·      Females and males have been socialized to follow different sexual scripts.
·      Adolescent girls are more likely than males to report being in love as the main reason they are sexually active.
·      Males making sexual advances, and it is up to the female to set the limits.

Risk factors in adolescent sexuality;
·      Many adolescent are not emotionally prepared to handle sexual experiences, especially in early adolescence.
·      Early sexual activity is linked with risky behaviors, such as drug use and school-related problems.
·      Early menarche and poor parent-child communcation were linked to early sexual behaviors in girls.
·      Parent-adolescent communication about sexuality.
·      Family closeness and support.
·      Sexual-risk taking behavior was more likely to ocur in girls living in single-parent homes.
·      Weak self-regulation and risk proneness set the stage for sexual risk taking at 16 to 17 years of age.

Factors associated with sexual minority behavior;
·      Biological basis, hormone; Early critical period hypothesis
·      In the 2nd to 5th month after conception, exposure of the fetüs to hormone levels characteristics of females might cause the individual to become attracted to males.
·      If critical period hypothesis is correct, it supports why modifying sexual orientation is difficult.
·      Developmental pathways, most gays and lesbians struggle with same-sex attractions in childhood.
·      Many youth do follow this developmental pathway, but others do not.
·      Many youth have no recollection of same-sex attraction in childhood and experience a sudden sense of their same-sex attraction in late adolescence.
·      Freud, no factor alone causes sexual orientation. Combination of genetic, hormonal, cognitive, environmetal.

Adolescent pregnancy;
·      More than 200.000 females in the United States have a child before their eighteenth birthday.
·      The United States continued to have one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy.
·      Factors in teenage pregnancy, onset age of sexual activity, poverty and family influence, less school success, less contraception use.
·      Consequence of adolescent pregnancy, creates health risk for both baby and the mother. Infants are more likely to have low birth weights, a prominent factor in infant mortality-as well as neurological problems adn childhood illness. Adolescent mothers often drop out of school. It often is not pregnancy alone that leads to negative consequences for an adolescent mother and her offspring.
·      Adolescent as parents, children of adolescent parents face problem seven before they are born. Aolescent mothers are less competent at child rearing. Adolescent mothers have less realistic expectations for their infants’ development than do older mothers.
·      Adolescent as parents, although some adolescent fathers are involved with their children, the majority are not. Adolescent fathers have lower incomes, less education and more children than do men who delay having children until their twenties.

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