Promising to wait: Virginity pledges and adolescent sexual behavior
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Promising to wait: virginity pledges and adolescent sexual behavior.
PURPOSE The current study examined the association between formal and non-formal virginity pledges and the initiation of genital play, oral sex, and vaginal intercourse among adolescents. METHODS Logistic regressions controlling for age, gender, race, expectancies, academic achievement, contraceptive education, perceived peer pledging behavior, and parental and peer attitudes were conducted t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Adolescent Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1054-139X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2004.09.016