PURPOSE: The role of closeness of sexual partners to family and friends (ie, how well the
participant's family and friends knew their primary sexual partner) to a variety of relationship …

CONTEXT: Research on adolescent condom use often focuses on the influence of parents,
peers and environmental factors. Although most sexually active teenagers have sex within …

PURPOSE: To investigate the extent to which need for intimacy in relationships and motives
for sex are capable of distinguishing between adolescents who always have protected sex …

Objective: To develop a multidimensional classification of sexual partnerships. Methods:
Eighty-two female subjects (ages 15–20 years; 77% African American) used coital logs to …

PURPOSE:: The purpose of this study was to describe the various types of adolescent
sexual relationships and to examine the association between the type of sexual relationship …

Purpose: To examine how the relative power of adolescent sexual partners in the domain of
emotional intimacy is related to condom use. Methods: Interviewed 228 adolescents who …

PURPOSE:: National surveys have found that the percentage of female adolescents who
report condom use at last sex differs by age group. Using longitudinal data, the authors …

This study describes associations of partner‐specific relationship characteristics with
consistent condom use among 297 young people (ages 13–24) with sexually transmitted …

In this study, two longitudinal models of early adolescent risky sexual behaviors (RSB) were
compared using a pooled sample of 267 Canadian and Italian adolescents (55% females; …

Purpose The influence of partner context (eg, drinking alcohol in the 2 hours prior to sex,≥ 3
years age discordant, met in public) on adolescent boys' and girls' condom use is unclear …