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Female Adolescents' Sexual Assertiveness Types: Q Methodology
1Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea. khjin@yuhs.ac.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to identify the type of sexual assertiveness of female adolescents.
Methods:
A Q methodology which provided a method of analyzing the subjectivity of each type was used. Thirty-three female high school students classified 40 selected Q statements into 9 points standard. The collected data was analyzed by using the PC-QUNAL program.
Results:
Four types of sexual assertiveness manifested by female adolescents were identified: Type 1: Self-normative line-drawing type, Type 2: Pleasure-seeking negotiation type, Type 3: Passive relationship maintenance type, Type 4: future-oriented satisfaction-delay type.
Conclusion:
This study is meaningful because it provides empirical information necessary for the development of theories by verifying integrated attributes related to the female adolescents' sexual assertiveness. Results also induced the measuring tools and succeeding studies, and presented educational material for sex education that is tailored to the developmental level and characteristics of female adolescents.
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