Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development.

One main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents’ sexual development—adolescents’ sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes—to a significant extent,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 47; no. 7; pp. 1427 - 1440
Autores principales: Overbeek, Geertjan, van de Bongardt, Daphne, Baams, Laura
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jul2018
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          Overbeek, Geertjan
          van de Bongardt, Daphne
          Baams, Laura
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          Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
          Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
          Pedagogy and Educational Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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        Socialization
        Social development
        Parenting
        Adolescent psychology
        Teenagers' sexual behavior
        Parent-child relationships
        Sexual health
        Love
        Social media
        Attitudes toward sex
        Media consumption
        Risk-taking behavior in adolescence
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          Socialization
          Social development
          Parenting
          Adolescent psychology
          Teenagers' sexual behavior
          Parent-child relationships
          Sexual health
          Love
          Social media
          Attitudes toward sex
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          Media consumption
          Risk-taking behavior in adolescence
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        Adolescence
        Longitudinal
        Sexual development
        Sexuality-specific parenting
        Sexualized media consumption
        Adolescence
        Longitudinal
        Sexual development
        Sexuality-specific parenting
        Sexualized media consumption
      ab: One main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents’ sexual development—adolescents’ sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes—to a significant extent, but different ideas exist about how this works. In this longitudinal study, we examined two hypotheses on how sexuality-specific parenting—parenting aimed specifically at children’s sexual attitudes and behaviors—relates to adolescents’ sexual development. A first buffer hypothesis states that parents’ instructive media discussions with their children—called instructive mediation—buffers the effect of sexualized media consumption on adolescents’ sexual attitudes and behavior and, vice versa, the effect of adolescents’ sexual attitudes and behavior on sexualized media consumption. A second brake hypothesis states that parents, by communicating love-and-respect oriented sexual norms, slow down adolescents’ development toward increased sexualized media use, permissive sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior. Using four-wave longitudinal data from 514 Dutch adolescents aged 13-16 years (49.8% female), we found evidence to support a brake effect. More frequent parental communication of love-and-respect oriented sexual norms was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes and, for boys, with less advanced sexual behavior and a less rapid increase in sexual risk behavior. Parents’ instructive mediation regarding adolescents’ sexualized media consumption was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes at baseline, but only for girls. No systematic evidence emerged for a buffer effect of parents’ instructive mediation. In conclusion, although our data seem to suggest that parent-child communication about sex is oftentimes “after the fact”, we also find that more directive parental communication that conveys love-and-respect oriented sexual norms brake adolescents’ move toward sexual maturity.
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