Ethnic Group Differences in Adolescents' Responses to Aids

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11229366
AutoresDoreen Rosenthal (autor correspondente), Susan Moore (0000-0003-4771-2876), Irene Brumen
Ano1990
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas220-239
Data de publicação1990-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.1990.tb00885.x
OpenAlexW2272111565
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas16

Adolescents of Anglo‐Celtic, Greek, Italian and Chinese descent attending a wide range of post‐secondary institutions in Victoria (mean age = 18 years) were asked about their sexual behaviours, knowledge about AIDS, and social responses to the threat of AIDS. There was evidence of relatively high levels of sexual activity, with some members of all groups engaging in risky sexual behaviour. Anglo‐Australians were more sexually active and informed about AIDS, with more equality between the sexes in these respects than the other groups. There was a distinction made between behaviours regarded as safe with regular and casual partners, but the meaning attributed to regular partnership differed. Greek‐ and Italian‐Australian young men endorsed monogamy for their regular partners but not necessarily for themselves, and Anglo‐Australians accepted a relationship of shorter duration as regular. Greater knowledge was not related to safer sexual behaviour, but discussion about a regular partner's previous sexual history correlated with more risky sexual behaviour. Overall, risk levels were not high but the casual‐regular partner distinction, together with the greater use of relatively unrealistic strategies for dealing with AIDS in association with risky behaviour in the non‐Anglo groups, gives cause for concern

Casual · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Human sexuality · Population · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sexual intercourse · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology