Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls
There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finl...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0044118x12471355 2024-09-15T18:25:37+00:00 Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls An Examination of Direct, Mediated, and Spurious Pathways Savolainen, Jukka Mason, W. Alex Hughes, Lorine A. Ebeling, Hanna Hurtig, Tuula M. Taanila, Anja M. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x12471355 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0044118X12471355 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0044118X12471355 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Youth & Society volume 47, issue 4, page 520-538 ISSN 0044-118X 1552-8499 journal-article 2012 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118x12471355 2024-08-27T04:23:38Z There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study ( N = 2,596) were used to address three theoretical explanations: (a) a direct effect premised on biological processes, (b) a mediated path based on social psychological processes, and (c) a spurious effect derived from the evolutionary theory of socialization. In support of the social psychological pathway, the negative association between age at menarche and coital status at age 15 was almost fully mediated by differential social exposure—an empirical construct measuring involvement in high-risk social contexts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland SAGE Publications Youth & Society 47 4 520 538 |
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There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study ( N = 2,596) were used to address three theoretical explanations: (a) a direct effect premised on biological processes, (b) a mediated path based on social psychological processes, and (c) a spurious effect derived from the evolutionary theory of socialization. In support of the social psychological pathway, the negative association between age at menarche and coital status at age 15 was almost fully mediated by differential social exposure—an empirical construct measuring involvement in high-risk social contexts. |
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Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls |
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