Longitudinal Patterns of Multidimensional Violence Exposure and Adolescent Early Sexual Initiation.

ABSTRACT: Early sexual intercourse is associated with sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and depressive symptoms, and delay of intercourse allows adolescents opportunities to practice relationship skills (Coker et al., 1994; Harden, 2012; Kugler et al., 2017; Spriggs & Halpern, 2008). Thus, understanding predictors of early sexual intercourse is crucial. Prior research has suggested that violence exposure is associated with early initiation of sexual intercourse in adolescence (Abajobir et al., 2018; Orihuela et al., 2020). However, most studies have looked only at a single type of violence exposure. In addition, little research has examined longitudinal patterns of violence exposure in order to determine whether there are particular periods when the violence exposure may have the strongest

SUBMITTER: Vasilenko SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10630535 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature