Influences on Adolescent Sexuality in Nigeria and Kenya

Findings from Recent Focus-Group Discussions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10796341
AutoresGary Barker (0000-0001-7120-3639, Community Options (United States), autor correspondente), Gary Knaul Barker, Susan Rich
Ano1992
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas199
Data de publicação1992-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1966728
PMID1523699
OpenAlexW2026210786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas46
Referências citadas2

Continuing high rates of adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa indicate a need for improved understanding of factors affecting adolescent sexuality. As traditional cultural influences on adolescent sexuality in Africa have diminished, peer interaction and modern influences have gained importance. To study peer interaction and societal factors and their impact on adolescent attitudes toward sexuality and contraception, the authors conducted a series of single-sex-focus-group discussions with in-school and out-of-school youth in urban and rural areas of Kenya and Nigeria in 1990. Out-of-school youth generally receive information on sexuality and family planning from peers (and the media), while in-school youth receive information in school, although not necessarily relevant information. Young women interviewed perceived unwanted early childbearing as something that affected them, an important precursor to family planning use. However, young people tended to have better information and more positive attitudes about induced abortion than about family planning

Abortion · Developing country · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Family planning · Focus group · Human sexuality · Peer group · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology