The Relationship between Sexual Behaviors, Self-Management Skills, Social Skills and Self-Esteem among University Students
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- Takahashi Hiroyuki
- Faculty of Education, Chiba University
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- Sakuma Hiromi
- Tokyo Metropolitan Shinozaki High School
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- Takehana Yukari
- Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University
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- Other Title
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- 大学生の性行動と自己管理スキル,社会的スキル及びセルフエスティームとの関連
- ダイガクセイ ノ セイコウドウ ト ジコ カンリ スキル,シャカイテキ スキル オヨビ セルフエスティーム ト ノ カンレン
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Abstract
<p> The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between sexual behaviors and psychosocial factors (e.g. self-management skills) among university students. In December 2009, an anonymous self-reported questionnaire survey was administered to 107 students (46 men and 61 women, the age mean and standard deviation was 20.0±1.3) in one of the national universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The dependent variables were sexual intercourse and sexual safety. The independent variables were sex, age, self-management skills, social skills and self-esteem.</p><p> The main results were as follows.</p><p>1) The percentages of those who had ever experienced sexual intercourse were 58.7% for male students and 60.7% for female students and there was no statistical difference between the two percentages. The percentage significantly increased in proportion to increase in age.</p><p>2) The percentages of those who had practiced safe sex were 59.3% for male students and 86.5% for female students and there was a significant difference.</p><p>3) There were significant positive relationships between self-management skills, social skills and self-esteem. But there was no significant relationship between self-management skills and "communication skills", which was a subscale of social skills. This implies that self-management skills do not have a strong relationship with skills for communication.</p><p>4) The results of the logistic regression analysis significantly showed that older students with low self-management skills and high social skills tended to have experience of sexual intercourse. The odds ratios were 1.61 for age, 0.80 for self-management skills and 1.10 for social skills. No independent variables related to sexual safety except that women tended to exercise safety more than men did.</p><p> These results imply the possibility of the effectiveness of enhancing self-management skills in sexual education to prevent a too-early sexual debut.</p>
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of School Health
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Japanese Journal of School Health 54 (2), 144-151, 2012-06-20
Japanese Association of School Health
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390858629729376128
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- NII Article ID
- 40019361885
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- NII Book ID
- AN00042540
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- ISSN
- 2434835X
- 03869598
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- NDL BIB ID
- 023850622
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
- KAKEN
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- Disallowed