Department of Sociology, Kyung Hee University, 26, Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, South Korea.
J Adolesc. 2020 Dec;85:126-134. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.11.004. Epub 2020 Nov 20.
For the past few decades, numerous theoretical perspectives have predicted a negative association between adolescent sexual debut and the probability of college entrance. The present article extends the literature by using nationally representative longitudinal data from South Korea to assess these perspectives.
Drawing on longitudinal data from South Korea, this article examined the impact of becoming sexually active between 8th and 12th grades on the probability of college entrance. We controlled for a wide array of confounding variables by using logit models that account for longitudinal attrition and school-based sampling design.
Analytical results showed that the initiation of sexual intercourse during adolescence predicted a statistically significant decrease in the probability of college entrance for both boys and girls. Gender-specific analyses suggested that, on average, sexual debut in adolescence was associated with a decrease of 10.3 percentage points in the probability of college entrance for boys and a decrease of 14.7 percentage points for girls.
These findings strongly support the theoretical perspectives of age norm theory and sexual double standards in South Korea, where strictly conservative attitudes toward sexuality and sexual behaviors are dominant.
在过去的几十年里，许多理论观点预测青少年性初体验与进入大学的概率之间存在负相关关系。本文利用韩国全国代表性的纵向数据，扩展了这一文献，评估了这些观点。
本文利用韩国的纵向数据，考察了 8 至 12 年级发生性行为对进入大学概率的影响。我们通过使用考虑到纵向流失和基于学校的抽样设计的逻辑回归模型，控制了广泛的混杂变量。
分析结果表明，青少年时期的性行为开始预测男孩和女孩进入大学的概率都有统计学意义的下降。性别特定的分析表明，平均而言，青少年时期的性初体验与男孩进入大学的概率下降了 10.3 个百分点，女孩下降了 14.7 个百分点。
这些发现强烈支持了韩国年龄规范理论和性双重标准的理论观点，在韩国，对性和性行为的严格保守态度占主导地位。
