Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 119 Health and Human Development Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2021 Aug;50(6):2383-2394. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02014-8. Epub 2021 Aug 16.
Sex during adolescence is normative; however, there are substantial individual differences in the timing and context of sexual debut. Leisure boredom is an underexplored correlate of sexual behavior that is associated with many adolescent health outcomes. We investigated if and how individual differences in leisure boredom may be associated with timing of sexual debut, and whether individuals engage in safe or risky behaviors at debut. Survival analysis, logistic regression, and Poisson regression were applied to eight-wave longitudinal data obtained from 3,088 South African adolescents (baseline M = 13.9 years) to examine associations between leisure boredom and cumulative hazard of sexual debut across adolescence, odds of co-occurring sexual behaviors, and incidence rate of co-occurring sexual risk behaviors at debut. Higher levels of leisure boredom were associated with elevated hazard cumulatively across adolescence. Higher levels of leisure boredom were also associated with lower odds of safe sex and higher odds of substance use during sex and transactional sex at sexual debut, but not casual sex or condom non-use at sexual debut. Although odds of singular risk behaviors were lower for girls than for boys, the association between leisure boredom and the number of risk behaviors at sexual debut was stronger for girls than boys. Higher trait leisure boredom was associated with elevated hazard of sexual debut, greater likelihood that risky behaviors accompanied sexual debut, and greater number of co-occurring risky behaviors at sexual debut. Results support leisure boredom as a potential target for preventing sexual risk behavior among South African adolescents.
青春期的性行为是正常的；然而，性行为的开始时间和背景存在很大的个体差异。闲暇时的无聊是性行为相关的一个未被充分研究的因素，它与许多青少年的健康结果有关。我们调查了个体在闲暇时的无聊感差异是否以及如何与性行为的开始时间相关，以及个体在首次性行为时是否会采取安全或危险的行为。生存分析、逻辑回归和泊松回归应用于从 3088 名南非青少年（基线 M=13.9 岁）获得的八次纵向数据，以检查闲暇时的无聊感与青春期性初次发生的累积风险、性初次发生时同时发生的性行为的可能性以及同时发生的性风险行为的发生率之间的关联。更高水平的闲暇时的无聊感与青春期内累积的更高风险相关。更高水平的闲暇时的无聊感也与安全性行为的可能性降低和性初次发生时使用药物和性交易的可能性增加相关，但与偶然性行为或性初次发生时不使用避孕套无关。尽管女孩发生单一风险行为的可能性低于男孩，但闲暇时的无聊感与性初次发生时风险行为的数量之间的关联在女孩中比男孩更强。较高的特质性闲暇时的无聊感与性初次发生的风险增加、性初次发生时伴随风险行为的可能性更大以及性初次发生时同时发生的风险行为更多有关。结果支持将闲暇时的无聊感作为预防南非青少年性风险行为的潜在目标。
