Kim Keuntae, Jo Se Hee
Department of Public Sociology, Korea University Sejong Campus, Sejong, Republic of Korea.
Social Science Research Institute, Busan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Front Sociol. 2024 Mar 12;9:1353304. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1353304. eCollection 2024.
Several studies have examined adolescent sexual behaviors by family immigration status, but most of these failed to account for heterogeneity within youths' multicultural backgrounds. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper draws data from the 2011 to 2022 rounds of the Korean Youth's Risk Behavior Survey ( = 769,160) and compares the likelihood of sexual intercourse across four groups of adolescents. Results from logistic regression indicate that the odds of having sexual contact increased 2.8 times for youths with a non-Korean father and Korean mother, compared with those from families with two Korean parents. When both father and mother are foreign-born, the odds of being sexually active increased 4.7 times. In both cases, the discrepancies might be primarily associated with the foreign fathers' lack of socioeconomic resources. Therefore, the father's role deserves more examination, and sex education in schools should be tailored to reflect multicultural adolescents' needs.
多项研究通过家庭移民身份考察了青少年的性行为，但其中大多数未能考虑到青少年多元文化背景中的异质性。为填补这一文献空白，本文从2011年至2022年的韩国青少年风险行为调查（样本量=769,160）中提取数据，比较了四类青少年发生性行为的可能性。逻辑回归结果表明，与父母均为韩国人的青少年相比，父亲为非韩国人、母亲为韩国人的青少年发生性接触的几率增加了2.8倍。当父母双方均为外国出生时，性活跃的几率增加了4.7倍。在这两种情况下，差异可能主要与外国父亲缺乏社会经济资源有关。因此，父亲的角色值得更多研究，学校的性教育应进行调整以反映多元文化青少年的需求。
