TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescents' and their friends' sexual behavior and intention
T2 - Selection effects of personality dimensions
AU - Baams, Laura
AU - Overbeek, Geertjan
AU - van de Bongardt, Daphne
AU - Reitz, Ellen
AU - Dubas, Judith Semon
AU - van Aken, Marcel A G
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - Using simulation investigation for empirical network analyses (in RSiena) we examined how personality and sexual behavior and intention were related to peer processes in Dutch adolescents. Our main research questions were: (a) do adolescents cluster together in friendship networks based on personality, sexual behavior, and/or sexual intention? And (b), do adolescents influence each other in their sexual behavior and intention? Results showed that adolescents clustered together based on dissimilarity in agreeableness, and similarity in gender and sexual intention. Further, we found that adolescents with lower levels of emotional stability had friends with more similar levels of sexual intention. The limited variance and low base rates of sexual behavior and intention did not allow us to explicitly test socialization effects.
AB - Using simulation investigation for empirical network analyses (in RSiena) we examined how personality and sexual behavior and intention were related to peer processes in Dutch adolescents. Our main research questions were: (a) do adolescents cluster together in friendship networks based on personality, sexual behavior, and/or sexual intention? And (b), do adolescents influence each other in their sexual behavior and intention? Results showed that adolescents clustered together based on dissimilarity in agreeableness, and similarity in gender and sexual intention. Further, we found that adolescents with lower levels of emotional stability had friends with more similar levels of sexual intention. The limited variance and low base rates of sexual behavior and intention did not allow us to explicitly test socialization effects.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Personality
KW - Sexual behavior
KW - Sexual intention
KW - Social network analyses
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.07.009
M3 - Article
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 54
SP - 2
EP - 12
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -