Strahle W M
Arch Sex Behav. 1983 Feb;12(1):67-94. doi: 10.1007/BF01542117.
At the most general level, I seek to model female adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior in terms of the social context in which it occurs. Drawing on emerging theoretical literature pertaining to social exchange theory and changes in the social positions of women (and men) and also on existing substantive literature, I apply these notions to adolescent sexuality and contraceptive usage. The reviews of the literature reveal a number of inconsistencies among those factors (variables) advanced to explain both the prevalence and frequency of premarital coitus and contraceptive employment. Furthermore, as there is a paucity of well-developed theoretical models that might explain these inconsistencies, what is needed is an additional study that seeks to examine the net effects of those variables used in the literature to explain variations in female premarital coitus and contraceptive use. The present formulation is a two-stage causal model that can be used to estimate the impact of these variables on premarital coital behavior (stage 1) and subsequent contraceptive usage (stage 2). These models, and a concomitant set of hypotheses, take into account an array of the more significant sociological and social psychological variables as far as the prediction of the two phenomena in question are concerned. These models may be useful in guiding future research as they graphically display the relationships between these sets of variables within the context of a more general theory of human behavior.
在最一般的层面上，我试图根据女性青少年性行为和避孕行为发生的社会背景来构建模型。借鉴与社会交换理论以及女性（和男性）社会地位变化相关的新兴理论文献，同时也参考现有的实证文献，我将这些概念应用于青少年性行为和避孕措施的使用。对文献的综述揭示，在那些被提出用于解释婚前性行为发生率和频率以及避孕措施使用情况的因素（变量）之间存在一些不一致之处。此外，由于缺乏能够解释这些不一致之处的完善理论模型，因此需要进行一项额外的研究，以考察文献中用于解释女性婚前性行为和避孕措施使用差异的那些变量的净效应。目前的模型是一个两阶段因果模型，可用于估计这些变量对婚前性行为（第一阶段）和随后避孕措施使用情况（第二阶段）的影响。就预测上述两种现象而言，这些模型以及一系列相应的假设考虑了一系列更为重要的社会学和社会心理学变量。这些模型可能有助于指导未来的研究，因为它们在更一般的人类行为理论背景下，以图形方式展示了这些变量集之间的关系。
