Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Programme Manager at Rutgers, Dutch Centre of Expertise on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
J Sex Res. 2020 Nov-Dec;57(9):1166-1179. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1743226. Epub 2020 Apr 27.
We investigated youth's self-reported socio-sexual competences (esteem, assertiveness, control, communication) within their most recent sexual partnerships, and explored disparities in these competences between versus sexual partnerships, including age and gender differences therein. Data were used from 6,098 Dutch adolescents and young adults (12.1-26.1 years), who participated in a national study on sexual health. Results indicated that being in love and sexual activity frequency were significant confounders for the associations between sexual partnership typology and youth's socio-sexual competence levels. After controlling for confounding relationship characteristics and sociodemographics, no differences were found between sexual partnership types in youth's sexual esteem, assertiveness, and control. However, sexual partnerships were characterized by more frequent sexual communication than sexual partnerships. This pattern was gender-consistent, but for young adults, this difference in sexual communication across sexual partnership types was larger than for adolescents. Our findings emphasize that considering the relationship context (e.g., ) for the development, utilization, and evaluation of young people's socio-sexual competences - particularly sexual communication - is a vital task for parents, educators, clinicians, and researchers. Individual (person-centered) versus relational (dyad-centered) differences in youth's socio-sexual competences require further exploration, as does the link between socio-sexual competences and sexual health and satisfaction.
我们调查了年轻人在最近的性伴侣关系中自我报告的社会性行为能力（自尊、自信、自控、沟通），并探讨了这些能力在 和 性伴侣关系之间的差异，包括其中的年龄和性别差异。数据来自 6098 名荷兰青少年和年轻人（12.1-26.1 岁），他们参加了一项关于性健康的全国性研究。结果表明，恋爱和性行为频率是性伴侣关系类型与年轻人社会性行为能力水平之间关联的重要混杂因素。在控制了混杂的关系特征和社会人口统计学因素后，在年轻人的性自尊、自信和控制方面，性伴侣关系类型之间没有差异。然而，与 性伴侣关系相比， 性伴侣关系的性沟通更为频繁。这种模式在性别上是一致的，但对于年轻人来说，这种性伴侣关系类型之间的性沟通差异比青少年更大。我们的研究结果强调，考虑关系背景（例如）对于年轻人社会性行为能力的发展、利用和评估，特别是性沟通，是父母、教育工作者、临床医生和研究人员的一项重要任务。年轻人社会性行为能力的个体（以个体为中心）差异与关系（以双人为中心）差异需要进一步探讨，社会性行为能力与性健康和满意度之间的联系也是如此。
