Adolescents' Exposure to Sexy Media Does Not Hasten the Initiation of Sexual Intercourse

Autor/inn/en	Steinberg, Laurence; Monahan, Kathryn C.
Titel	Adolescents' Exposure to Sexy Media Does Not Hasten the Initiation of Sexual Intercourse
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 2, S.562-576 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0020613
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Sexuality; Mass Media; Influences; Longitudinal Studies; Middle School Students; Scores; Interviews; Mass Media Effects; Regression (Statistics); African Americans; Whites; Racial Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sexualität; Massenmedien; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Rassenunterschied
Abstract	It is widely believed that exposure to sexy content in the mass media leads teenagers to become sexually active. Although most research linking sexy media exposure to adolescents' sexual behavior is cross-sectional, several recent, well-publicized longitudinal studies purport to find a causal connection, which has alarmed the public and prompted criticism of the entertainment industry for its corrupting influence on youth. One problem in research on media effects on sexual activity, however, is that outcomes that are presumed to result from media exposure may actually be due to factors that differentially predispose adolescents to have different degrees of media exposure and are themselves related to sexual activity. We reanalyzed data from one of these longitudinal studies (Brown et al., 2006) using propensity score matching to control for preexisting differences between adolescents with and without high exposure to sexy media. With such controls for differential selection in place, we found no evidence that the initiation of sexual intercourse is hastened by exposure to sexy media. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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