A Longitudinal Look at Family Communication about Sexual Issues

A Behavior Analytic Look at Contemporary Issues in the Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse

Parental Sexual Attitudes, Family Sexual Communication, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior

Some researchers have reported that when parents are the main source of sex education, their adolescent chilaren are less likely to engage in premarital sexual activity and are more likely to use effective contraception. This study used the variables of gender and parental sexual attitudes (liberal or conservative) to categorize 349 college students and one of their parents into four groups. Th...

A look back and a look forward: the Journal of Health communication celebrates 100 issues.

From 1995 to 2012 wasn’t just the time span for the first 100 issues of the Journal of Health Communication—it also was a time of many changes for the professional field that this journal covers. I think of four that especially merit mention as we look back and look forward on the field and the Journal of Health Communication’s contribution to it. It was a time of passing for some of the 20th c...

Parent-teen communication about sexual topics.

This study examined parent-teen communication about sexual topics in matched samples of 666 mother-teen and 510 father-teen pairs in the US. Parents and their 8th- through 12th-grade children completed parallel surveys that assessed demographic, relationship, and attitudinal variables hypothesized to be associated with sexual communication. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine ...

Inm-3: Concept of Sexual Satisfaction: A New Look

The process of sexual response is defined in four phases: Desire, Excitement or arousal, Orgasm and Resolution. This model was introduced by Mr. Masters and Mrs. Johnsons for the first time and then completed by Mrs. Kaplan. At that time, this classification was so practical and valuable for understanding sexual response and thereupon defining sexual dysfunctions, even being still used as a cri...