Frisco Michelle L
The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Sociology.
Sociol Educ. 2008 Jul 1;81(3):284-311. doi: 10.1177/003804070808100304.
High school students today have high ambitions but do not always make choices that maximize their likelihood of educational success. This is the motivation for investigating relationships between high school sexual behavior and two important academic attainment milestones: earning a high school diploma and enrollment in distinct postsecondary programs. Analysis of data from 7,915 National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988-1994 participants indicates that timing of sexual initiation, contraceptive nonuse, and parenthood all predict female and male students' academic attainment. Furthermore, sexual behavior has more ramifications as attainment milestones become more competitive. These findings point to the importance of considering how students' choices across multiple life domains influence academic attainment, an important predictor of adult socioeconomic opportunity.
如今的高中生志向远大,但他们做出的选择并不总是能最大程度地提高其教育成功的可能性。这就是研究高中性行为与两个重要学业成就里程碑之间关系的动机:获得高中文凭以及进入不同的高等教育项目。对1988 - 1994年全国教育纵向研究中7915名参与者的数据进行分析表明,首次性行为的时间、不使用避孕措施以及生育都能预测男女学生的学业成就。此外,随着成就里程碑的竞争愈发激烈,性行为产生的影响也更大。这些发现表明,考虑学生在多个生活领域的选择如何影响学业成就非常重要,而学业成就又是成人社会经济机会的重要预测指标。