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- Title
Optimizing Assessment of Risk and Protection for Diverse Adolescent Outcomes: Do Risk and Protective Factors for Delinquency and Substance Use Also Predict Risky Sexual Behavior?
- Authors
Fleming, Christopher M.; Eisenberg, Nicole; Catalano, Richard F.; Kosterman, Rick; Cambron, Christopher; David Hawkins, J.; Hobbs, Tim; Berman, Ilene; Fleming, Tammi; Watrous, Jessie
- Abstract
Assessments of youth risk and protective factors (RPFs) for substance use, delinquency, and violence have been used by communities to identify priorities and target them with prevention interventions. These same RPFs may also predict other youth problems. This study examined the strength and consistency of relationships of 41 ecological RPFs that predict antisocial behavior and substance use with sexual behavior outcomes in a sample of 2150 urban youth in 10th and 12th grade. After adjusting for controls, findings identify significant associations among the majority of community, school, family, peer, and individual risk factors, and family, peer, and individual protective factors, with sexual behavior outcomes, specifying unique associations among multiple factors with risky sex relative to both safe sex and not being sexually active. Prevention programming that targets common predictors for multiple problems may address a broad array of outcomes, including sexual health risk behaviors.
- Subjects
HUMAN sexuality; RISK-taking behavior; SOCIAL problems; RISK assessment; DISEASE risk factors; SAFE sex; DELINQUENT behavior
- Publication
Prevention Science, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 5, p788
- ISSN
1389-4986
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11121-019-0987-9