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 …

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 …

OBJECTIVES: The association between the timing of discussions about condoms between
mother and adolescent and adolescents' condom use during their first and subsequent …

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 …

Abstract A total of 822 adolescents (15‐19 years old) took part in this study. A subsample of
this group, consisting of respondents with previous sexual experience (n= 423) is central to …

A health belief model of condom use was used to identify factors associated with condom
use in 390 sexually active female adolescents, aged 12 through 19 years, recruited at the …

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 …

Data from more than 1,000 sexually active young males interviewed in 1988 for the National
Survey of Adolescent Males at ages 15-19 and reinterviewed in 1990-1991 at ages 17-22 …

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 …

To determine correlates of condom use in adolescent males, we administered a sexual
behavior questionnaire to 105 urban males attending a general adolescent clinic. The mean …