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Title: Associations between Childhood and Adolescent BMI and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence
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Duckworth, Jennifer C. |
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Associations between Childhood and Adolescent BMI and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Education, Indiana University, 2018 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Body Mass Index (BMI); Childhood; Modeling, Latent Class Analysis/Latent Transition Analysis; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation is the first-known study to document longitudinal associations between BMI and subsequent RSBs among adolescents, including examination of racial/ethnic differences. Using Economic Rationality Theory (ERT) and Life Course Theory as compatible guiding frameworks, latent growth curve modeling was conducted to examine relationships between BMI prospectively assessed from childhood through adolescence and engagement in subsequent RSBs, including early sex, multiple sexual partners, unprotected sex, and/or casual sex. Data were drawn from 8,095 Hispanic, Black, and White/other females and males from Children of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a longitudinal study of biological children of women participating in a large-nationally representative sample of individuals aged 14-22 in 1979. |
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Duckworth, Jennifer C. Associations between Childhood and Adolescent BMI and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Education, Indiana University, 2018. |