Youth assets and sexual risk behavior: The importance of assets for youth residing in one-parent households

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-31

  Oman, Roy F ^a   Vesely, Sara K ^a   Aspy, Cheryl B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY LIFE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SINGLE PARENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD REARING; COITUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD REARING; COITUS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SEX EDUCATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 21744460830     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: 15386341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/372505     Document Type: Article

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