Miller Ann Neville, Wa Ngula Kyalo, Musambira George
a Nicholson School of Communication , University of Central Florida , PO Box 161344 , Orlando , Florida , 32816-1344 , United States.
Afr J AIDS Res. 2012 Mar;11(1):57-64. doi: 10.2989/16085906.2012.671268.
We surveyed church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya, to investigate denominational differences in their sexual behaviour and to identify factors related to those differences. In comparison with youths attending mainline churches, the youths surveyed at Pentecostal/evangelical churches were less likely to have ever had sex. Furthermore, although male youths in the mainline churches were more likely than their female counterparts to have ever had sex, no such difference emerged between the male and female youths attending Pentecostal/evangelical churches. For youths from both types of churches, not only individual religious commitment (being 'born again') but also contextual religiosity (i.e. the extent of socialisation in their faith communities) explained the variations in their sexual behaviour and attitudes. Finally, the effect of denomination on one's intention to have sex in the next 12 months was mediated by the frequency of talk about spiritual issues with church confidants.
我们对肯尼亚内罗毕去教堂做礼拜的年轻人进行了调查，以研究不同教派在性行为方面的差异，并确定与这些差异相关的因素。与参加主流教会的年轻人相比，在五旬节派/福音派教会接受调查的年轻人发生过性行为的可能性较小。此外，虽然主流教会的男青年比女青年更有可能发生过性行为，但在参加五旬节派/福音派教会的男青年和女青年之间没有出现这种差异。对于来自这两种教会的年轻人来说，不仅个人的宗教信仰（“重生”），而且情境宗教性（即他们在信仰社区中的社会化程度）都解释了他们性行为和态度的差异。最后，教派对于一个人在未来12个月内发生性行为意图的影响是通过与教会知己谈论精神问题的频率来调节的。
