O'Sullivan Lucia F, Cheng Mariah Mantsun, Harris Kathleen Mullan, Brooks-Gunn Jeanne
Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2007 Jun;39(2):100-7. doi: 10.1363/3910007.
Despite the vast amount of existing research on adolescent sexual behavior, little is known about the trajectory of social, romantic and sexual events within an adolescent's relationship.
A subsample of participants in Wave 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (8,438 respondents aged 12-21) provided data on the sequence of 15 social, romantic and sexual events that occurred in a recent romantic relationship. Proportions reporting each event and average relative rankings were assessed for all respondents, for different racial and ethnic groups, and for respondents who belonged to the same racial or ethnic group as their partner. Logistic regression was used to compare proportions; ordinary least square regression was used to analyze the mean sequential ranking of each event.
Social and romantic events, such as spending time with one's partner in a group and holding hands, were far more common than sexual events, such as touching one's partner without clothing, and typically preceded sexual events in the trajectory of relationship events. Romantic events were the most common across three of the four major U.S. racial and ethnic groups. Asian and Hispanic respondents tended to have low proportions reporting sexual events compared with white respondents. Black adolescents were the only group for whom talking about prevention of pregnancy and STDs preceded sexual events. Reports from male and female adolescents were similar.
Recognition of the diversity of relationship experiences may prompt the development of more effective interventions for adolescents who engage in risky sexual behavior.
尽管现有大量关于青少年性行为的研究，但对于青少年恋爱关系中社交、浪漫和性事件的发展轨迹却知之甚少。
青少年健康全国纵向研究第二轮的参与者子样本（8438名年龄在12至21岁之间的受访者）提供了近期恋爱关系中发生的15项社交、浪漫和性事件的顺序数据。对所有受访者、不同种族和族裔群体以及与伴侣属于同一种族或族裔群体的受访者，评估了报告每项事件的比例和平均相对排名。使用逻辑回归比较比例；使用普通最小二乘法回归分析每项事件的平均顺序排名。
社交和浪漫事件，如与伴侣在群体中共度时光和牵手，远比性事件，如不穿衣服触摸伴侣，更为常见，并且在恋爱关系事件轨迹中通常先于性事件发生。浪漫事件在美国四个主要种族和族裔群体中的三个群体中最为常见。与白人受访者相比，亚洲和西班牙裔受访者报告性事件的比例往往较低。黑人青少年是唯一一个在性事件之前谈论预防怀孕和性传播疾病的群体。青少年男性和女性的报告相似。
认识到恋爱经历的多样性可能会促使为从事危险性行为的青少年制定更有效的干预措施。
