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Title: Sex, Violence, Man, Woman: Adolescent Health Risk Behavior from a Contextual Resource Perspective
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Leech, Tamara G. J. |
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Sex, Violence, Man, Woman: Adolescent Health Risk Behavior from a Contextual Resource Perspective Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2006 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Age at First Intercourse; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Obesity; Women's Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation places gender and race at the center of three individual essays focusing adolescent health risk behaviors. Specifically, data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are used to explore risky sex behavior and violence among adolescents. The first paper investigates the relationship between gender role attitudes and sexual behavior. It argues that moderate gender attitudes---distinct from both extremely liberal attitudes and extremely traditional attitudes---are associated with safer sexual practice among teen girls. The second paper is concerned with teen boys' sexual practices and level of violence. Analyses suggest that limited school-based social resources are associated with problem behaviors among White adolescents, and associations are stronger among adolescents with more traditional gender attitudes. The third paper uses obesity among teen girls as an example of the relationship between limited social resources and sexual behavior. This study finds that obesity among White adolescents is associated with lower rates of teen sexual experience, but higher rates of risky sexual practices. Taken as a whole, the three papers suggest that the culturally relative construction of gender plays a central role in violence and risky sexual behavior among U.S. teens. |
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Leech, Tamara G. J. Sex, Violence, Man, Woman: Adolescent Health Risk Behavior from a Contextual Resource Perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2006. |