Friendships and early relationships: Links to sexual initiation among American adolescents born to young mothers

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 118-126

  Cooksey, Elizabeth C ^a   Mott, Frank L ^a   Neubauer, Stefanie A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036590146     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3097710     Document Type: Article

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