TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental influences on young people's sexual behaviour
T2 - a longitudinal analysis
AU - Wight, Daniel
AU - Williamson, Lisa
AU - Henderson, Marion
PY - 2006/8/1
Y1 - 2006/8/1
N2 - Both family structure and processes have been associated with young people's sexual behaviour, but most studies are cross-sectional and focus on only one outcome: age at first intercourse. This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of Scottish teenagers (N = 5041) to show how low parental monitoring predicts early sexual activity for both sexes (with some reverse causation), and for females it also predicts more sexual partners and less condom use. A lot of spending money also predicts early sexual activity and, for males, having more sexual partners. Comfort talking with parents about sex, however, seems to bear little relationship to sexual behaviour.
AB - Both family structure and processes have been associated with young people's sexual behaviour, but most studies are cross-sectional and focus on only one outcome: age at first intercourse. This paper uses longitudinal data from a survey of Scottish teenagers (N = 5041) to show how low parental monitoring predicts early sexual activity for both sexes (with some reverse causation), and for females it also predicts more sexual partners and less condom use. A lot of spending money also predicts early sexual activity and, for males, having more sexual partners. Comfort talking with parents about sex, however, seems to bear little relationship to sexual behaviour.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Families
KW - Parental monitoring
KW - Parenting
KW - Sexual behaviour
KW - Young people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746040503&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 16213580
AN - SCOPUS:33746040503
VL - 29
SP - 473
EP - 494
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
SN - 0140-1971
IS - 4
ER -