Determinants of Sexual Behavior
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.094How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Determinants, Sexual Behavior
- Abstract
Adolescent sexual behavior is part of the process of adolescent reproductive development. Adolescent sexual behavior that is not healthy can lead to serious psychosocial problems, such as depression and social role confusion due to teenage pregnancy. This study aims to determine the determinants of risky sexual behavior among adolescents at Rise vocational high school Cirebon District in 2015. This study used a quantitative study with cross sectional approach. The samples in this study were male and female students of Rise VHS Cirebon as many as 331 students who were selected with a total population sampling techniques. Data collection used a questionnaire with interview technique. The results showed that 29% of respondents did risky sexual behaviors. 92 respondents hugged each other with the opposite sex, 71 respondents touched sensitive parts of the partner and 12 respondents had ever done masturbation. Predisposing factors associated with risky sexual behaviors were parental education, knowledge and attitude. Enabling factors associated with risky sexual behaviors were having a girlfriend or boyfriend and residence. Reinforcing factors associated with risky sexual behaviors were peer influence and mass media information. The dominant factor associated with risky sexual behaviors among adolescents was peer influence factor with OR = 4.9.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Heny Puspasari AU - Zafriel Tafa PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/24 TI - Determinants of Sexual Behavior BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science, Health, Economics, Education and Technology (ICoSHEET 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 374 EP - 377 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.094 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.094 ID - Puspasari2020 ER -