| Summary: | 碩士 === 中央警察大學 === 犯罪防治研究所 === 103 === As known, adolescents’ sexual information mostly comes from their family, school, media and peers. While schools teach them the same materials of sexual information, the adolescents’ sexual knowledge, attitudes and the sexual-related behaviors vary differently. For example, those deviants have more wrong sexual knowledge than normal adolescents. At the same time, deviants had more sexual experiences than their counterparts. Literature also indicates that those who have weak bonds to family and school are more likely to get involved in deviant media (e.g., pornography internet) and peers, resulting in learning deviant and wrong sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. A bulk of research has been conducted in Western societies, whereas this issue has been largely overlooked in Taiwan society.
For filling this gap, the purpose of thesis has two folds: (1) investigate the prevalence of sexual knowledge, attitude and sexual-related behavior among those adolescents; (2) identity the relevant factors impacting adolescents’ sexual information, attitudes, and behaviors, specifically emphasizing the probability sources from family, school, media and peer domains. Moreover, this study compares the different levels of perceived sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors between adolescents in high schools (normal group) and juvenile delinquents in reformatories (delinquent group). We expect that juvenile delinquents would like to report more wrong and deviant sexual knowledge and attitudes, as well as more sexual-related behaviors and experiences before incarceration.
For the purpose of the research, the research method is questionnaire survey. Accordingly to literature and prior studies, the researcher developed a constructive questionnaire, namely “Adolescents’ Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitudes and Sexual-related Behavior Questionnaire”, in which six scales have been included: “Personal information”, “Family factors”, “ Scale of sexual knowledge”, “Scale of sexual attitude”, “Sexual-related behavior”, and “Subculture factors”. First, personal information was measured by gender, age, levels of education, the education levels of parents, and living type (with parents or not). Family factors include the subscale of parent-child communication and the subscale of communication between parents. The scale of sexual knowledge was consisted of items including sexual physiology, pregnancy, contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual harassment/sexual abuse. The scale of sexual attitude includes asking respondents the opinions of sexual behavior before marriage, dangerous sexual behavior, and illegal sexual behavior. The sexual-related behavior includes asking respondents the frequencies of kiss, caressing, sexual intercourse, pregnancy/spouse’s pregnancy, and contraception. Finally, the subculture scale includes the frequency of contacting pornography and perceiving the frequency of friends’ behavior of contacting pornography.
Findings came from a comparison between adolescents in high school (normal group) and juvenile delinquents (delinquent group) show that the levels of communications between parents and parent-children in adolescent group significant higher than that occurred in the delinquent group. In addition, the frequencies of contacting pornography voluntarily and numbers of peers with more sexual experiences in delinquent group are significant higher than that of its counterpart. Meanwhile, while there is no difference about the source channels came from schools and parents between two groups, the peers and media really significantly impact the delinquent group in terms of sexual information. Delinquents significantly reported higher levels of incorrect sexual knowledge, more open-mind sexual attitudes and more sexual-related experiences and behaviors.
Results drawn from a series of hierarchical regression found that among characteristics, delinquent group significant impacts sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual-related behaviors. The older reported more incorrect levels of sexual knowledge and more frequencies of sexual related behaviors. While male reported more incorrect sexual knowledge, female holds conservative attitudes sex. Those who did not live with parents reported higher levels of incorrect knowledge about sex. In addition, those who have lower frequencies of communication with parents reported more conservative attitudes toward sex. Subcultures among those adolescents also produced higher levels of influences on sexual knowledge and sexual-related behaviors. In terms of sexual sources among those adolescents, schools give correct information to those respondents but reduce the frequencies of sexual-related behaviors. At the same time, while delinquent peers and media escalate the levels of opened-mind attitudes toward the sex, delinquent peers also enhance the frequencies of sexual-related behaviors. Correct sexual knowledge produced a negative association with sexual attitudes, whereas opened –mind sexual attitudes increase the frequencies of sexual-related behaviors.
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