IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/ijpsjl/v11y2019i2p80.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Parenting Styles, Sex Education Locality and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Teenagers’ Experiment with Sex

Author

Listed:
  • Mokuolu Bolade Olubunmi
  • Ilori Stephen Oluyemi
  • Ajiboye Adedotun Samuel

Abstract

The issue of sexuality among teenagers was investigated in this study to assess factors that could predispose them to it. Factors such as parenting style, sex education, locality and self-efficacy were assessed to know the extent of their influence on teenagers’ experiment with sex. Three hundred and Sixty four students (220 males, 67 Females In Agege and Ipaja Local government, Lagos State and 44 males, 33 Females in Esure, Ekiti State) participated in the study. Result showed that permissive and authoritarian parenting styles influence teenagers’ experiment with sex, while authoritative parenting does not. Also sex education and self-efficacy significantly predict sex experimentation. There is also relationship between experimenting with sex and self-efficacy, permissive parenting, authoritarian parenting and sex education, but not significantly related to authoritative parenting. The study found a significant main effect of sex and locality on experimenting with sex, while teenagers in rural setting are significantly higher in experimenting with sex and authoritarian parenting than their counterparts in urban setting, those in urban setting are significantly higher in self-efficacy, authoritative parenting and comprehensive sex education.

Suggested Citation

  • Mokuolu Bolade Olubunmi & Ilori Stephen Oluyemi & Ajiboye Adedotun Samuel, 2019. "Parenting Styles, Sex Education Locality and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Teenagers’ Experiment with Sex," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(2), pages 1-80, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:11:y:2019:i:2:p:80
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/download/0/0/39514/40390
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/0/39514
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:11:y:2019:i:2:p:80. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.