TY - JOUR
T1 - Supportive relationships and sexual risk behavior in adolescence
T2 - An ecological-transactional approach
AU - Henrich, Christopher C.
AU - Brookmeyer, Kathryn A.
AU - Shrier, Lydia A.
AU - Shahar, Golan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the thoughtful feedback of Lisa Armistead and three anonymous reviewers on previous drafts of this article. This work was supported by Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to Michael Merson, MD (No. P30 MH 62294). This research was based on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a program project designed by J. Richard Udry (PI) and Peter Bearman, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with cooperative funding participation by: the National Cancer Institute; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; the National Institute of Drug Abuse; The National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Nursing Research; the Office of AIDS Research, NIH; the Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH; the Office of Population Affairs, DHHS; the National Center for Health Statistics, Center For Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, and the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2006/4/1
Y1 - 2006/4/1
N2 - Objective: To examine the longitudinal associations between supportive relationships with friends and parents and sexual risk behavior in adolescence based on an ecological-transactional perspective. Methods Analyses were conducted on 2,652 sexually active adolescents from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results: African-American adolescents had lower risk for sexual risk behavior. Supportive friendships and parent connectedness interacted in predicting decreased likelihood of sexual risk behavior. Mother-child communication about sex contributed to decreased likelihood of sexual risk only for girls. There were also small reciprocal effects of sexual risk behavior on decreased relationship quality over time. Conclusion: To better understand the parents' role in adolescent sexual risk behavior, multiple facets of parenting, the social contexts of parenting and adolescents' peers, and the effects of adolescents' behavior on these relationships should be taken into consideration.
AB - Objective: To examine the longitudinal associations between supportive relationships with friends and parents and sexual risk behavior in adolescence based on an ecological-transactional perspective. Methods Analyses were conducted on 2,652 sexually active adolescents from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results: African-American adolescents had lower risk for sexual risk behavior. Supportive friendships and parent connectedness interacted in predicting decreased likelihood of sexual risk behavior. Mother-child communication about sex contributed to decreased likelihood of sexual risk only for girls. There were also small reciprocal effects of sexual risk behavior on decreased relationship quality over time. Conclusion: To better understand the parents' role in adolescent sexual risk behavior, multiple facets of parenting, the social contexts of parenting and adolescents' peers, and the effects of adolescents' behavior on these relationships should be taken into consideration.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Friends
KW - HIV/AIDS
KW - Parents
KW - Sexual risk behavior
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U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsj024
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsj024
M3 - Article
C2 - 15827352
AN - SCOPUS:33644915056
SN - 0146-8693
VL - 31
SP - 286
EP - 297
JO - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
JF - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
IS - 3
ER -
