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The Relationships Among Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, behaviors of Male and Female High School Students

Abstract

The present study tried to explore the current data on sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, sexual behavior of adolescents, and the relationship among the three variables. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 600 male and female high school students. Results showed that male students had more opened and equal sexual-attitude, but lower level of sexual knowledge. Compared to female counterparts, male students also had more experiences of masturbation, intercourse, pornography, but less experiences of the pregnancy of partner. Also, the relationship between sexual openness and sexual equality was significant and interactive among male group. In regression, sexual equality was the only significant predictor of male students' sexual behavior meanwhile age, sexual equality, and sexual knowledge were the significant predictors of female students' sexual behavior.

keywords
adolescent, sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, sexual behavior
Received
2003-03-31
Revised
2003-05-19
Accepted
2003-06-07
Published
2003-05-31

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