Correlates of sexual abstinence among adolescent virgins dating steady boyfriends in Taiwan

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 286-291

  Wang, Ruey Hsia ^a   Hsu, Hsiu Yueh ^b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MEIHO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decisional balance; Female adolescents; Perceptions of power; Processes of change; Self efficacy; Sexual abstinence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COURTSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; COURTSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SOCIAL VALUES; TAIWAN;

EID: 33747435272     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2006.00115.x     Document Type: Review

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