Illness, Social Disadvantage, and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the influence of illness on sexual risk behavior in adolescence and the transition to adulthood, both directly and through moderation of the impact of social disadvantage. We hypothesized positive effects for social disadvantages and illness on sexual risk behavior, consistent with the development of faster life history strategies among young people facing greater life adversity. Using the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we developed a mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression model predicting sexual risk behavior in three comparisons: risky nonmonogamous sex versus safer nonmonogamous sex, versus monogamous sex, and versus being sexually inactive, by social characteristics, illness, interactions thereof, and con

SUBMITTER: Alley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7791890 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature