Wen?Hsu Lin|Chia-Hua Liu|Yi Chen
Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University|Tamkang University|Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
sexually explicit media exposure early adolescence found associated risky sexual behavior however previous study suffered methodological issue selection bias furthermore little known effect multimodality sexually explicit media exposure risky sexual behavior relationship applied nonwestern societiesthis study aimed improve upon previous studies using instrumental variable estimation addition study also included multimodality sexually explicit media three risky sexual behavior measure sample taiwanese adolescentsparticipants recruited prospective longitudinal study taiwan youth project 7th grade mean age 133 study initiated 2000 sexually explicit media exposure including everexposure number modalities exposed measured wave 2 8th grade risky sexual behavior measured waves 8 mean age 203 10 mean age 243 twostage least squares regression employed pubertal timing instrumental variableabout 50 participants exposed sexual media content 8th grade average one modality sexually explicit media exposure predicted early sexual debut unsafe sex multiple sexual partners p 05 furthermore exposure media modalities increased likelihood risky sexual behaviors however effect early sexual debut gender invariantexposure sexually explicit media early adolescence substantive relationship risky sexual behavior emerging adulthood knowledge causal like effect provides basis building better preventive programs early adolescence one prominent way early education media literacy physicians may need familiar content initiate