Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation Differences in Diet Quality and Eating Habits from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

SEXUAL ASSAULT PERPETRATION AND REPERPETRATION: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood

Three incoming freshmen classes of men provided data in a 5-year longitudinal study of the relationship between childhood victimization experiences and sexually coercive behaviors during adolescence and 4 years of college. A key finding of this study was that men who were physically punished, sexually abused, or who witnessed domestic violence in childhood were at greater risk for sexual perpet...

Women's vulnerability to sexual assault from adolescence to young adulthood.

PURPOSE To study the vulnerability to sexual assault among undergraduate women. METHODS The respondents were demographically representative of undergraduate women in state-supported universities in the United States. Participants (N = 1569) were surveyed using the Sexual Experiences Survey at the beginning and end of their 1st year and at the end of each of the next 3 years of their undergrad...

Epidemiology and natural course of eating disorders in young women from adolescence to young adulthood.

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of eating disorders (ED) in a community sample of adolescent girls; to compare the clinical characteristics of full-syndrome (FS) and partial-syndrome (PS) ED cases; and to provide information about the continuity between adolescent ED and young adult psychopathology. METHOD A randomly selected sample of high school girls were assessed during adolescenc...

Biological Gender, Sexual Orientation and Gender Role in Eating Disorders

Prevalence and stability of sexual orientation components during adolescence and young adulthood.

Analyses of three waves (6 years) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health data explored the prevalence and stability of sexual orientation and whether these two parameters varied by biologic sex, sexual orientation component (romantic attraction, sexual behavior, sexual identity), and degree of component. Prevalence rates for nonheterosexuality varied between 1 and 15% and depe...