Marchi K S, Guendelman S
University of California, San Francisco.
Int Q Community Health Educ. 1994 Jan 1;15(2):209-26. doi: 10.2190/627L-HLDJ-XMVA-WCM9.
The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with sexual behavior among urban, first-generation Latino adolescents.
Data were collected with self-administered questionnaires on 176 (98 girls and 78 boys) Latino high school students between the ages of Fifteen and nineteen years, of whom 76 percent were born in Latin America and 34 percent had lived in the United States for two years or less. The outcome variables measured three levels of sexual activity, defined as: sexual abstinence, "making out" (kissing passionately, or kissing "using one's tongue"), and sexual intercourse. The key predictors were gender and acculturation. Other variables included information on socio-demographics, self and body-image, college aspirations, and family structure/relationships. Stratified analysis was conducted for each gender.
Twenty percent of boys and 27 percent of girls were abstainers. Whereas girls were more likely than boys to "make out" only (47% vs. 26%), boys were more likely to engage in sexual intercourse (54% vs. 26%). For girls, there was a negative association between making out and maternal punishment, feeling close to both parents and paternal love. Sexual intercourse was inversely associated with having educational goals beyond high school and presence of parental love, and positively correlated with age and maternal communication about sex. In boys, the predictors of "making out" were feeling close to both parents and Spanish language spoken with friends, and for sexual intercourse the significant predictors were feeling close to both parents, presence of an older sister, and body-image.
The results indicate that family structure and relationships, personal characteristics, and acculturation play important but different roles in the sexual development of Latino adolescent girls and boys. Sex education curricula should take these gender and family influences into account.
本研究旨在探讨与城市第一代拉丁裔青少年性行为相关的因素。
通过自填式问卷收集了176名（98名女孩和78名男孩）年龄在15至19岁之间的拉丁裔高中生的数据，其中76%出生于拉丁美洲，34%在美国生活了两年或更少时间。结果变量衡量了三个性活动水平，定义为：性禁欲、“亲热”（热烈亲吻或“舌吻”）和性交。关键预测因素是性别和文化适应。其他变量包括社会人口统计学信息、自我和身体形象、大学志向以及家庭结构/关系。对每个性别进行了分层分析。
20%的男孩和27%的女孩是禁欲者。女孩比男孩更有可能只是“亲热”（47%对26%），而男孩更有可能进行性交（54%对26%）。对于女孩来说，亲热与母亲的惩罚、与父母双方的亲密感以及父爱呈负相关。性交与高中以上的教育目标和父母的爱呈负相关，与年龄和母亲关于性的交流呈正相关。在男孩中，“亲热”的预测因素是与父母双方的亲密感以及与朋友说西班牙语，而性交的显著预测因素是与父母双方的亲密感、有姐姐以及身体形象。
结果表明，家庭结构和关系、个人特征以及文化适应在拉丁裔青少年女孩和男孩的性发育中起着重要但不同的作用。性教育课程应考虑这些性别和家庭影响。
