Positive and Negative Outcomes of Sexual Behaviors (eBook)

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 144

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

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2014 | 1. Auflage
112 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-93039-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

A MESSAGE FROM THE NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 1

1. Is Sexual Behavior Healthy for Adolescents? A ConceptualFramework 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, andsocial health, although the impacts of such behavior may vary by anumber of individual, relational, and contextual factors.

2. Outcomes of Sexual Behaviors Among Sexual Minority Youth21
Elizabeth M. Morgan

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

3. Linking Online Sexual Activities to Health Outcomes AmongTeens 37
Lucia F. O'Sullivan

Online sexual activities are common among adolescents, but areassociated with fewer negative intrapersonal and interpersonalhealth outcomes than suggested by the often pathologizedrepresentation in the media.

4. The Complexities of Adolescent Dating and SexualRelationships: Fluidity, Meaning(s), and Implications for YoungAdults' Well-Being 53
Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, Jennifer Copp, Peggy C.Giordano

Despite recent concern over nonrelationship sex and sex withmultiple partners, adolescents engaging in these behaviorsexperience relatively few negative long-term outcomes.

5. Sexual Learning, Sexual Experience, and Healthy AdolescentSex 71
J. Dennis Fortenberry

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

6. Healthy Sex and Sexual Health: New Directions for StudyingOutcomes of Sexual Health 87
Eva S. Lefkowitz, Sara A. Vasilenko

Adolescent sexual behavior is linked to a broad array ofpositive and negative outcomes, and future research with newmethodologies and understudied populations can improve theunderstanding of the complexity of these associations.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2014
• Reihe/Serie: J-B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent Development
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Bildungswesen • Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychology • Childhood • Education • Entwicklungspsychologie / Kindheit • K-12 / Entwicklung im Jugendalter • Klinische Psychologie / Kinder u. Jugendliche • Psychologie • Psychology • Youth Development (K-12)
• ISBN-10: 1-118-93039-8 / 1118930398
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-93039-7 / 9781118930397