Sexuality Development in Adolescence and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21264342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Moshman (Karger Publishers (Switzerland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 287-291 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-716X • E-ISSN: 1423-0054 |
| Publisher | Karger Publishers (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.1159/000367857 |
| OpenAlex | W2051562013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In her article on adolescent sexuality development, Miriam Arbeit [this issue] conceptualizes adolescent sexuality as a realm of desire, pleasure, and social development, raising issues of negotiation, empowerment, ethics, and identity. This is quite different from the standard approach that classifies adolescent sexuality as a type of “risk taking” and then explains it in terms of a special adolescent tendency to take irrational and pointless risks, which is, in turn, explained by alleged deficits of the immature adolescent brain. Thus, Arbeit redirects the literature in a more scientifically productive direction. Others have provided important critiques of the literature on adolescent sexuality and pregnancy [Macleod, 2011; Males, 2010], but no one to my knowledge has so insightfully integrated research and theory regarding adolescence, sexuality, and developmental processes. In this commentary, I pursue further questions concerning just what is developmental in adolescent sexual development and how a relational developmental systems approach broadens our conception of development and enables us to identify developmental change beyond childhood. I then consider issues of promoting sexuality development in secondary and higher education
Adolescent development · Cognition · Cognitive development · Developmental psychology · Human sexuality · Psychosexual development · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Child Development and Digital Technology · Gender Studies · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |