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Atitudes/comportamentos dos adolescentes face à sua sexualidade
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Over the last years, attitudes and sexual behaviors of teenagers have suffered permanent evolu tion, and have changed into a more permissive sexuality, not always followed by proper information on the most adequate way to deal with their own sexuality, which may lead to several health risks.
Statistic analysis of questionnaires from a 521 student sample, from 2 high schools, with ages between 15 and 19 years old, comprising 46,4% boys and 53,6% girls, the age average being 16,37 and standard deviation (SD) 1,07.
196 students already have boyfriend/girlfriend, representing 36,8% of the total boys and 38,4% of the total for girls. 188 students already had sexual intercourse, being 64,9% of these sexual inter courses with boyfriend/girlfriend. After the first sexual intercourse 179 students had at least anoth er sexual intercourse, with the same sexual partner for 116 of these students an with a different sex ual partner for 63 of the subjects. 134 students used a contraceptive method, being the favorite the condom, which was used by 81,2%. About the information on sexuality 457 students (87,7%) con sidered themselves informed, resorting in their vast majority to internet and magazines (42,6%) to obtain information. In order to discuss sexuality most of the students prefer to talk to friends (53,7%).
It has been verified that a big percentage of students initiate sexual activity quite early, thoughbeing necessary a greater intervention on school level, investing in sexual education and peer edu cation, as a big percentage of students chooses to discuss their sexuality issues with friends.
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Attitudes Sexual behaviours Sexuality Teenagers Birth control methods
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VAZ, Ana Maria ; ANTUNES, Maria Teresa (2020) - Atitudes/comportamentos dos adolescentes face à sua sexualidade. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Nº2, 2010, pp:377-382