Looking back: The experience of first sexual intercourse and current sexual adjustment in young heterosexual adults

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-35

  Reissing, Elke D ^a   Andruff, Heather L ^a   Wentland, Jocelyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COITUS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE; COITUS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF EFFICACY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856611297     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2010.538951     Document Type: Article

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