Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescents' Sexual Onset

Autor/inn/en	Longmore, Monica A.; Manning, Wendy D.; Giordano, Peggy C.; Rudolph, Jennifer L.
Titel	Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescents' Sexual Onset
Quelle	In: Social Psychology Quarterly, 67 (2004) 3, S.279-295 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2725
DOI	10.1177/019027250406700304
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Sexuality; Dating (Social); Race; Age; Income; Longitudinal Studies; Self Esteem; African Americans; Regression (Statistics); Whites; Correlation; Gender Differences; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Sexualität; Rasse; Abstammung; Alter; Lebensalter; Einkommen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Afroamerikaner; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; White; Weißer; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	We examine whether self-esteem and depressive symptoms influence sexual onset when important controls such as age, dating, race, and income are examined. Analyses are based on the first two waves of the restricted-use sample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. We examine adolescents who reported at wave 1 that they had not had sexual intercourse. Using logistic regression models run separately for males and for females, we find that depressive symptoms, when entered simultaneously, exert a greater effect than self-esteem on sexual onset. Depressive symptoms have less effect on sexual onset for African-American girls than for white girls. Higher self-esteem is associated with greater likelihood of sexual debut at older ages for boys. Our findings suggest that although many positive benefits of self-esteem have been suggested, the conceptual and empirical link between depressive symptoms and adolescent sexual onset may be more crucial. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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