青春期的时间和自我调节如何预测资源贫乏的环境中的青少年性活动
Roy Otten1, Thao Ha2, Erika Westling3
1Department of Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NL, USA.
Development and psychopathology
|October 4, 2023
概括
早期青春期可能会增加来自低资源环境的青少年的风险行为. 这是通过减少自我调节,特别是努力控制,影响性活动和药物使用而发生的.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 社会经济因素 社会经济因素
背景情况:
- 以前的研究表明,青春期的时间和自我调节之间存在联系,特别是在资源有限的环境中.
- 这种联系可能解释了青春期的时间如何影响早期的冒险行为.
研究的目的:
- 研究自我调节 (努力控制) 在青春期时间和性活动之间的关系中扮演的调解角色.
- 为了比较这些影响,来自低资源环境和充足资源环境的青少年.
主要方法:
- 对728名青少年和家庭的长度研究,在7.5岁时评估收入与需求 (ITN) 以定义资源组.
- 测量了青春期时间 (10.5岁),自我调节/努力控制 (14岁) 和性活动 (16岁).
- 结构方程建模分析了低ITN和中/高ITN组中的中介途径.
主要成果:
- 从青春期定时到性活动的途径,通过努力控制进行调解,仅在低ITN组中显著.
- 在资源贫困的环境中,早期的青春期成熟与较低的努力控制相关,预测性活动增加.
- 当药物使用取代性活动作为结果时,观察到类似的调解模式.
结论:
- 青春期的时间和性活动等风险行为之间的联系是通过特别在资源贫困环境中的努力控制来调解的.
- 在低资源环境中的青少年可能会经历不同的发育途径,将早期青春期与自我调节和随后的风险行为联系起来.
- 调查结果强调了社会经济背景在理解青少年发展和风险方面的重要性.
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