Self-Esteem, Attitudes toward Love, and Sexual Assertiveness among Pregnant Adolescents

Sexual assertiveness and adolescents' sexual rights.

Attachment insecurities and women's sexual function and satisfaction: the mediating roles of sexual self-esteem, sexual anxiety, and sexual assertiveness.

We examined the potential role of three mediators--sexual self-esteem, sexual anxiety, and sexual assertiveness--of the association between romantic attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) and two aspects of women's sexual functioning: sexual function and sexual satisfaction. A sample of 556 women aged 18 to 30 agreed to complete an online series of validated questionnaires assessing at...

P-132: Female Adolescents Attitudes toward Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Iran

Background: Despite clear reasons for necessity of sexual health education for adolescents, it is a contested issue and has faced challenges in most cultures. Adolescents, specially females in Iran have so many unmet needs in sexual health issues, yet appropriateness of sexual health education to them is controversy. This study aimed to examine female adolescents attitudes to sexual health educ...

Current mood-state and past depression as predictors of self-esteem and dysfunctional attitudes among adolescents

This study investigated the roles of current mood-state and past depression in predicting self-esteem and dysfunctional attitudes in a sample of 110 adolescents who were presently non-depressed. First, the authors tested the hypothesis that lower self-esteem and more dysfunctional attitudes would be found among adolescents with more severe past depression (after statistically controlling curren...

The associations between assertiveness, psychological well-being and self-esteem in adolescents

This study explored the associations between adolescents’ assertive behaviour, psychological well-being and self-esteem. The sample consisted of 1023 students (14.9±0.51; 47.6% boys). Two dimensions of the Scale for Interpersonal Behaviour (distress and performance), two factors of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (depression/anxiety and social dysfunction) and two factors of the Rosenberg S...