Scales measuring psychosocial antecedents of coital initiation among adolescents in a rural southern state

Psychological Reports

Volumn 92, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 981-990

  Nagy, Stephen ^a,c   Watts, Graham F ^b   Nagy, M Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Public Health Department   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COITUS; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ALABAMA; ASSERTIVENESS; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE;

EID: 0041702999     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3.981     Document Type: Article

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