Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1983

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Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1983

Investigators: Brent C. Miller

Publication Date: March 23, 2016

Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1983

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This study was conducted as an evaluation of a prevention services demonstration grant awarded to T.D. Olson of Brigham Young University by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. In this study, the units of observation are adolescents aged 14-19, attending high schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Surveys were administered as part of a pretest-posttest comparison design of an alternative curriculum offered in health, parenting or home economics classes. The alternative curriculum was constructed to promote a greater degree of parental involvement in the education of family living and sexual decision making. The study was conducted twice, once in 1983 using students in Utah and New Mexico, and again in 1984, adding an additional set of students from California to diversify the study population. The 1984 study also acquired parental data from parent questionnaires which was not part of the 1983 study design. The present Data Set (B4) covers the 1983 study; DAAPPP Data Set B5 chronicles the 1984 study. Both surveys included questions on respondent demographic characteristics, a Family Strengths Scale designed to indicate the quality of family relationships, a Parent-Adolescent Communications Scale that addresses openness of communication and communication problems in the family, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Norwicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale, and questions on adolescents' attitudes and behavior regarding sexual intercourse.

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