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Title: Adolescent Sexual Debut: A Multi-System Perspective of Ethnic and Racial Differences
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1. Caputo, Richard K.
Adolescent Sexual Debut: A Multi-System Perspective of Ethnic and Racial Differences
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 19,4 (September 2009): 330-358.
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Routledge ==> Taylor & Francis (1998)
Keyword(s): Age at First Intercourse; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Ethnic Differences; Family Influences; Gender Differences; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Racial Differences; Religious Influences

Data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were used to assess the association between family, self, proximate extra-familial, and distal extra-familial system factors and abstinence/virginity and age of first sexual intercourse by ethnicity and race (N = 1,854). Findings show how and in what circumstances measures associated with these four factors vary for Black, White, and Hispanic youth. Findings point to the robustness of class and gender for each ethnic-racial group on timing of sexual initiation and of delinquency and negative peer relations on abstinence among Black and White youth and of religious affiliation among Hispanic youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Caputo, Richard K. "Adolescent Sexual Debut: A Multi-System Perspective of Ethnic and Racial Differences." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 19,4 (September 2009): 330-358. .