Positive and Negative Outcomes of Sexual Behaviors

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 144

Eva S. Lefkowitz, Sara A. Vasilenko (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2014
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-118-93037-3 (ISBN)

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Developing healthy sexual behaviors is critical to adolescents wellbeing. While more emphasis has been on negative outcomes, there are broad positive implications for physical health, mental health, intimate relationships, and identity development. To fully understand the impact, we need to understand both.

Developing healthy sexual behaviors is critical to
adolescents? wellbeing. While more emphasis has been on
negative outcomes, there are broad positive implications for
physical health, mental health, intimate relationships, and
identity development. To fully understand the impact, we need to
understand both. In addition, the impact of sexual behavior is not
universal, but may differ based on individuals?
demographic, relational, contextual, and attitudinal factors.

This volume provides a framework for understanding the complex role
of sexual behavior in adolescents? lives, with a specific
focus on the roles of sexual minority status, internet-based sexual
experiences, relationship context, and sexual learning through
formal and informal sex education in determining the outcomes of
sexual behavior. It provides:

A nuanced, multidimensional understanding of the role of sexual
behavior in shaping adolescents? development and
well-being

Important directions for future research

Recommendations for sexuality education, prevention, and
intervention programs.

This is the 144th volume in this Jossey-Bass series New
Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Its
mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on
cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume
focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited
by experts from that field.

Sara A. Vasilenko is a research associate at the Methodology Center at the Pennsylvania State University. Eva S. Lefkowitz is an associate professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at the Pennsylvania State University.

A MESSAGE FROM THE NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 1

1. Is Sexual Behavior Healthy for Adolescents? A Conceptual
Framework for Research on Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Physical,
Mental, and Social Health 3

Sara A. Vasilenko, Eva S. Lefkowitz, Deborah P. Welsh

Adolescent sexual behavior influences physical, mental, and
social health, although the impacts of such behavior may vary by a
number of individual, relational, and contextual factors.

2. Outcomes of Sexual Behaviors Among Sexual Minority Youth
21

Elizabeth M. Morgan

Sexual behavior may have different implications for sexual
minority than for heterosexual youth, including distinct physical,
psychological and emotional, and identity outcomes.

3. Linking Online Sexual Activities to Health Outcomes Among
Teens 37

Lucia F. O?Sullivan

Online sexual activities are common among adolescents, but are
associated with fewer negative intrapersonal and interpersonal
health outcomes than suggested by the often pathologized
representation in the media.

4. The Complexities of Adolescent Dating and Sexual
Relationships: Fluidity, Meaning(s), and Implications for Young
Adults? Well-Being 53

Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, Jennifer Copp, Peggy C.
Giordano

Despite recent concern over nonrelationship sex and sex with
multiple partners, adolescents engaging in these behaviors
experience relatively few negative long-term outcomes.

5. Sexual Learning, Sexual Experience, and Healthy Adolescent
Sex 71

J. Dennis Fortenberry

Adolescents learn to become sexually functional and healthy
through a range of informal and formal sex education experiences,
and sexual learning could be expanded to better support healthy
sexual functioning.

6. Healthy Sex and Sexual Health: New Directions for Studying
Outcomes of Sexual Health 87

Eva S. Lefkowitz, Sara A. Vasilenko

Adolescent sexual behavior is linked to a broad array of
positive and negative outcomes, and future research with new
methodologies and understudied populations can improve the
understanding of the complexity of these associations.

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.7.2014
Reihe/Serie	J–B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent Development
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 280 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-118-93037-1 / 1118930371
ISBN-13	978-1-118-93037-3 / 9781118930373
Zustand	Neuware