Department of Family and Human Development, Utah State University, 84322-2905, Logan, Utah.
J Youth Adolesc. 1988 Dec;17(6):521-30. doi: 10.1007/BF01537829.
Parents' educational attainment is known to be related to their children's educational aspirations and plans, and these variables have been presumed to be inversely related to early adolescent sexual activity. Relationships between these educational variables and adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior were analyzed in a sample of 810 high school students from two Western states. Parents' educational background was positively related to adolescents' educational plans and performance, and these educational variables were inversely related to adolescents' premarital sexual attitudes and intercourse experience. It seems most plausible to conclude that parents' educational backgrounds affect children's educational interests and grades, which, in turn, affect adolescent sexuality. However, the observed associations also could be interpreted to suggest that early sexual behavior reduces adolescents' educational plans and lowers their school grades.
家长的受教育程度与他们孩子的教育愿望和计划有关，而这些变量被认为与青少年早期的性行为呈负相关。在来自两个西部州的 810 名高中生样本中，分析了这些教育变量与青少年性态度和行为之间的关系。家长的教育背景与青少年的教育计划和成绩呈正相关，而这些教育变量与青少年婚前的性态度和性交经验呈负相关。最合理的结论似乎是，父母的教育背景影响孩子的教育兴趣和成绩，进而影响青少年的性行为。然而，观察到的关联也可以解释为，早期的性行为会减少青少年的教育计划并降低他们的学校成绩。
