Adolescent Girls' Assessment and Management of Sexual Risks: Insights from Focus Group Research

Autor/inn/en	Bay-Cheng, Laina Y.; Livingston, Jennifer A.; Fava, Nicole M.
Titel	Adolescent Girls' Assessment and Management of Sexual Risks: Insights from Focus Group Research
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 43 (2011) 3, S.1167-1193 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X10384475
Schlagwörter	Females; Focus Groups; At Risk Persons; Adolescents; Risk Management; Sexuality; Safety; Mothers; Interpersonal Relationship; Aggression; Health Behavior; Social Influences; Individual Characteristics; Environmental Influences; Resilience (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Risikogruppe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Risikomanagement; Sexualität; Sicherheit; Mother; Mutter; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Sozialer Einfluss; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss
Abstract	We conducted focus groups with girls ages 14 to 17 (N = 43) to study how the dominant discourse of sexual risk shapes young women's understanding of the sexual domain and their management of these presumably pervasive threats. Through inductive analysis, we developed a coding scheme focused on three themes: (a) "types of sexual risk," (b) "factors that moderate sexual risk," and (c) "strategies for managing sexual risk." Collectively, participants identified many risks but distanced themselves from these by claiming that girls' susceptibility is largely a function of personal factors and therefore avoidable given the right traits, values, and skills. We consider this reliance on other-blaming and self-exemption, as well as instances in which individual participants diverged from this group discourse, in the context of neoliberalism. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10