Adolescent Religiosity and pre-marital sexual behavior: The mediating role of pre-marital sexual attitude

Pre-marital sex before marriage in adolescents is a severe problem associated with increased transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, having more than one partner, and early pregnancy. Even though Indonesia considered society high religious values, free-sex behavior increasingly concerning. This study investigates the relationship between religiosity attitudes toward pre-marital sexual adolescents. Respondents this were 200 aged 10-19 years old, selected through purposive sampling technique, criteria: have religion, not married, currently dating. Data analyzed using linear regression method. The results showed that attitude fully mediates effect behavior. present findings contribute to research by explaining does decrease if person permissive or has supportive towards it. With outcome, it expected relevant parties will focus on changing adolescents’ thoughts, attitudes, perspectives regarding only rely teachings as framework for preventing