ABSTRACT

Although communication between parents and children about sexually transmitted diseases and avoiding unwanted pregnancy has been shown to be effective in increasing safe sex practices, parents also implicitly (or explicitly) communicate their own values and attitudes about sex in conversations with their children that might have impacts on their children’s sexual feelings and behaviors beyond adolescence. Data were collected from undergraduate students in a human development class (N = 351; 265 women). Multiple group path analysis was used to investigate how emerging adults’ perceptions of their parents’ sexual values, either leaning toward sexual exploration or abstinence, were associated with their own sexual attitudes, frequency of sexual activity with a partner, desired frequency of sexual activity with a partner and sexual satisfaction. Sexual exploration and abstinence values communicated by parents were significantly associated with emerging adults’ permissive and instrumental sexual attitudes; however, only permissive sexual attitudes mediated relationships between parental values and emerging adult sexual outcomes. Only parent-communicated abstinence values had significant direct effect on any of the sexual outcomes (sexual satisfaction). Additionally, gender only moderated the direct relationship between parental abstinence values and sexual frequency; this relationship was significant only for women.

摘要

尽管父母和孩子之间关于性传播疾病和避免意外怀孕的沟通已被证明可以有效地增加安全性行为，但父母在与孩子的谈话中也会含蓄地（或明确地）传达他们自己对性的价值观和态度，这可能会产生影响关于他们的孩子在青春期以后的性感受和行为。数据来自人类发展课程的本科生（N= 351; 265 名女性）。多组路径分析用于调查新兴成年人对其父母性价值观的看法，无论是倾向于性探索还是禁欲，与他们自己的性态度、与伴侣的性活动频率、期望的性活动频率相关联。伴侣和性满足。父母传达的性探索和禁欲价值观与新兴成年人的宽容和工具性态度显着相关；然而，只有宽容的性态度才能调节父母价值观与新兴成人性结果之间的关系。只有父母沟通的禁欲值对任何性结果（性满意度）具有显着的直接影响。此外，性别只调节了父母禁欲价值观和性频率之间的直接关系；这种关系只对女性很重要。