Teens and Sexuality

Teens and Sexuality

Thomas , C .L (2007 . Effects of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program on Teens ' Attitudes Toward Sexuality : A Latent Trait Modeling Approach Developmental Psychology , 43 (1 , 173-185 . In this article , Thomas reviews the effects of program intervention in a school based teenage pregnancy program with regard to the attitudes that teens have regarding sexuality . The author used information obtained from middle grade students from an earlier evaluation of an abstinence-based teen pregnancy prevention program . The author used latent trait structural equation modeling in order to evaluate the impact that

the intervention programs has on changes in constructs of teens ' attitudes toward sexuality . His research focuses on assessing whether teen pregnancy prevention program has any effects on teens towards sexuality . The article is useful to my research topic , as Thomas suggests , the recent statistics on teen births is encouraging and therefore the program can be seen t have some positive effects . He has also gone ahead to conduct an actual study on the changes on teens ' Attitudes towards sexuality to determine the effectiveness of intervention programs on risky sexual behaviors . Therefore his article will form the basis of my research

Hampton , M . R (2005 . Influence of Teens ' Perceptions of Parental Disapproval and Peer Behaviour on Their Initiation of Sexual Intercourse . Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality , 14 (3 /4 , 105-121 The author of this article has carried out a study to determine whether the students ' sexual behavior would change with the approval or disapproval of their parents . The author uses...