METHODS Four waves of sexual behavior data were collected between 2008/2009 and
2011 from high school students aged 13–17 in the Bahamas. Structural equation and latent …

The literature suggests that parental monitoring can best be conceptualized and measured
through the domains of parental knowledge, youth disclosure, parental solicitation, and …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of age, gender, peer, family,
and culture in adolescent risky sexual behavior for Cambodian and Laotian (Lao)/Mien …

Background Adolescence is considered as an important phase for beginning sexual high
risk behaviors that increases the possibility of negative, unpleasant and problematic …

Background While parents are a crucial part of the social environment in which adolescents
live, learn and earn, they could play important roles in efforts to prevent adolescent sexual …

Background Emerging findings have shown that high parental monitoring of adolescents'
sexual and reproductive health (SRH) communications between parents and adolescents …

Little is known about the influences of peers on the sexual activity of adolescents in sub‐
Saharan Africa. Better understanding of these issues could lead to more effective sexual and …

Background There is scanty evidence regarding the impact of parenting practices on young
people's sexual risk-taking in sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, the extent to which such …

Adolescent sexual risk behavior has typically been studied within singular, isolated systems.
Using a multi-system approach, this study examined a combination of individual, proximal …

The consequences of high sexual risk-taking behavior can be negative and lifelong and
evaluating sexual risk-taking in adolescents as the problem (rather than sexual initiation as …