Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa.
Demography and Population Studies (DPS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
PLoS One. 2019 Jan 7;14(1):e0210349. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210349. eCollection 2019.
The reasons for the persistence of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa despite the increasing knowledge about the associated risks continue to attract scholarly debates. Drawing from a cross-sectional study conducted among male and female Nigerian university students, we examined the relationship between family structure, family support and transactional sex.
A pre-validated questionnaire was administered to 800 male and female students selected using stratified sampling; however, we performed the analysis on 630 participants who had ever engaged in sex. Transactional sex was operationalised as self-reporting of giving or receiving money, gifts or favour in exchange for sex. We fitted a list-wise logistic regression model to examine the relationship between family structure, family support and transactional sex while controlling for essential covariates.
Of the 630 participants included in the analysis, 17.9% had given and 23.8% had received money, gift or favour in exchange for sex. Our bivariate analysis shows that individuals from polygamous families had higher odds of reporting that they have ever given (AOR: 1.89; CI: 1.05-3.39) or received (AOR: 1.85; CI: 1.85-3.19) money, gift or favour in exchange for sex; however, the relationship was not statistically significant after controlling for relevant covariates. After controlling for essential covariates, the odds of giving or receiving money, gift or favour in exchange for sex was 56% lower in individuals who received adequate family support compared to those who received no or insufficient family support.
In conclusion, this paper lends support to the assertion that family structure and family support are protective factors against transactional sex among adolescents and young adults. Future surveys need to include a larger sample in order to explore the effect of single-parent and polygamous family on transactional sex in Nigeria where family formation is changing rapidly.
尽管撒哈拉以南非洲地区的青少年和年轻人对相关风险的了解不断增加，但他们仍持续存在危险性行为，这一现象的原因持续引发学术辩论。本研究从横断面研究中抽取了尼日利亚男女大学生作为研究对象，探讨了家庭结构、家庭支持与易性交易性行为之间的关系。
采用分层抽样方法，对 800 名男女学生进行了预验证问卷的调查；然而，我们对 630 名曾经发生过性行为的参与者进行了分析。易性交易性行为的操作性定义为自我报告的给予或接受金钱、礼物或好处以换取性。我们拟合了一个完全逻辑回归模型，以检查家庭结构、家庭支持与易性交易性行为之间的关系，同时控制了必要的协变量。
在纳入分析的 630 名参与者中，17.9%的人曾给予金钱、礼物或好处以换取性，23.8%的人曾接受过金钱、礼物或好处以换取性。我们的单变量分析表明，来自多配偶制家庭的个体报告曾给予（优势比[OR]：1.89；95%置信区间[CI]：1.05-3.39）或接受（OR：1.85；CI：1.85-3.19）金钱、礼物或好处以换取性的可能性更高；然而，在控制了相关协变量后，这种关系没有统计学意义。在控制了必要的协变量后，与未获得或未充分获得家庭支持的个体相比，获得充分家庭支持的个体进行易性交易性行为的可能性降低了 56%。
综上所述，本文支持这样一种观点，即家庭结构和家庭支持是青少年和年轻人易性交易性行为的保护因素。未来的调查需要纳入更大的样本，以探讨在尼日利亚这种家庭结构迅速变化的环境下，单亲家庭和多配偶制家庭对易性交易性行为的影响。
