Relationships Between Adolescent Sexual Outcomes and Exposure to Sex in Media: Robustness to Propensity-Based Analysis

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 585-591

  Collins, Rebecca L ^a   Martino, Steven C ^a   Elliott, Marc N ^a   Miu, Angela ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Media effects; Sexual behavior; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952582798     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022563     Document Type: Article

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