Abstract Heterosexual African American youth face substantial disparities in sexual health
consequences such as HIV and STI. Based on the social ecological framework, the current …

Sexual debut, or first intercourse, predicts problem behaviors such as substance use. This
association could reflect a direct effect of debut itself, general developmental trends, or the …

Personality Psychology: A Student-Centered Approach by Jim McMartin organizes the field
of personality psychology around basic questions relevant to the reader's past, present, and …

Girls who experience earlier pubertal timing relative to peers also exhibit earlier timing of
sexual intercourse and more unstable sexual relationships. Although pubertal development …

To illuminate which features of an unpredictable environment early in life best forecast
adolescent and adult functioning, data from two longitudinal studies were examined. After …

Highlights•Understanding individual differences is a major challenge for evolutionary
psychologists.•Many argue that individual differences result from calibration of traits to …

Although research supports the influence of parents and peers on adolescent risky behavior,
less is known about mechanisms proposed to explain this relation. This study examined the …

This paper is the first in a sequence of explorations into the etiology of sexual offence
patterns. Our sample is comprised of 63 males who admitted and/or were convicted of …

Girls who receive higher quality fathering engage in less risky sexual behavior (RSB) than
their peers. Previous research identifies higher levels of parental monitoring/knowledge and …

Large-scale epidemiological studies have documented that many children and adolescents
are exposed to different forms of victimization experiences. However, such population-based …