Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Bernardino County, 1984

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Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Bernardino County, 1984

Investigators: Brent C. Miller

Publication Date: March 23, 2016

Survey of Family Relations and Adolescent Sex Behavior in Salt Lake City, Utah, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Bernardino County, 1984

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This study was conducted as an evaluation of a prevention services demonstration grant awarded T. D. Olson of Brigham Young University by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy. In this study, the units of observation are adolescents aged 14-19, attending high schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Bernardino County, California. Surveys were administered as part of a pretest-posttest comparison design of an alternative curriculum offered in health, parenting, and home economics classes. The curriculum was constructed to promote a greater degree of parental involvement in the education of family living and sexual decision making. The study was done twice. The first study was done in 1983 using students in Utah and New Mexico (DAAPPP Data Set No. B4). Due to the high proportion of Mormons in the earlier sample, a second study was conducted in 1984, using students in Utah, New Mexico, and California. DAAPPP Data Set B5 covers the 1984 study. The 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 sexual value questions regarding adolescents' attitudes and behavior concerning kissing, petting and intercourse.

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