Brigham Young University, USA.
Brigham Young University, USA.
J Adolesc. 2019 Apr;72:70-82. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.02.007. Epub 2019 Mar 8.
This study examines the socialization of conservative attitudes about sex and pornography use in later adolescence. We tested a socialization model whereby we anticipated that parent conservative sex attitudes would more strongly predict teen conservative sex attitudes when more frequent and higher quality parent-teen communication was present. We further hypothesized that teen conservative sex attitudes would mediate relations between parent conservative sex attitudes and teen pornography use over time.
The data come from three waves of the National Survey of Youth and Religion (N = 3290; ages 13 through 18; M age = 15.5).
Path analyses found that teen sex attitudes mediated the negative link between parent sex attitudes and subsequent teen pornography use, but frequency and quality of parent-teen communication extensiveness (operationalized as frequency) and quality (operationalized as comfort) did not moderate the association between parent and teen sex attitudes. However, communication extensiveness did moderate relations between parent sex attitudes and later teen pornography use. The model was largely consistent across teen gender.
In short, parent and teen conservative sex attitudes are developmentally linked and predictive of later teen pornography use, but the role of parent-teen communication and teen gender are complex and in need of further research.
本研究考察了青少年后期保守的性观念和色情使用态度的社会化过程。我们测试了一个社会化模型，即在父母与青少年之间更频繁和更高质量的沟通存在的情况下，父母保守的性态度会更强烈地预测青少年保守的性态度。我们进一步假设，青少年保守的性态度将在时间上调节父母保守的性态度与青少年色情使用之间的关系。
数据来自全国青年与宗教调查的三个波次（N=3290；年龄 13 至 18 岁；M 年龄=15.5）。
路径分析发现，青少年的性态度在父母的性态度与青少年随后的色情使用之间的负相关中起到了中介作用，但父母与青少年之间沟通的频率和质量（以频率和质量来操作化）并没有调节父母和青少年的性态度之间的关系。然而，沟通的广泛程度确实调节了父母的性态度与青少年后来使用色情制品之间的关系。该模型在青少年性别方面基本一致。
简而言之，父母和青少年保守的性态度在发展上是相互关联的，并且可以预测青少年后来使用色情制品，但父母与青少年之间的沟通和青少年的性别是复杂的，需要进一步研究。
