Exposure to degrading versus nondegrading music lyrics and sexual behavior among youth

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Martino, Steven C ^a   Collins, Rebecca L ^a   Elliott, Marc N ^a   Strachman, Amy ^b   Kanouse, David E ^a   Berry, Sandra H ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent sexual behavior; Media effects; Music lyrics; Sexually explicit media

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; JUVENILE; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COURTSHIP; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MINORITY GROUP; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TELEPHONE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; COITUS; COURTSHIP; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EROTICA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEARNING; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; PREJUDICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748439839     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0131     Document Type: Article

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