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Theories
and Approaches:
Risk and Protective Factors
Continuing Education
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Self-Study Quiz
- Groups of risk and protective factors include:
- individual biological factors.
- sexual values, attitudes and modeled behaviors.
- connections to adults and organizations that discourage sex, unprotected
sex, or early childbearing.
- All of the above.
- When examining risk and protective factors, remember that:
- it is helpful to concentrate on one theoretical approach at a time.
- these factors will always be consistently related to behavior.
- no single theoretical perspective is sufficient; the total picture
is much more complex.
- there are no clearly established relationships between risk and
protective factors and sexual risk-taking behavior.
- When choosing risk and protective factors to address, people should
consider:
- which factors will have the greatest impact on adolescent sexual
behavior.
- which factors can be changed the most.
- which factors causally affect sexual risk-taking behavior.
- All of the above.
- There are more than ___________ different factors that affect important
teen sexual behavior.
- 800
- 400
- 200
- 100
- Environmental factors affecting teen sexual behavior include all of
the following, EXCEPT:
- teens' relationships with parents.
- peer influences.
- race/ethnicity.
- The characteristics of the communities in which teens live.
- Having an older romantic partner:
- increases the chance that a teen will use contraceptives.
- decreases the chances of pregnancy.
- makes it more likely that the teen will have multiple partners.
- decreases the chance that contraception will be used.
- Of all the risk and protective factors, those most strongly related
to sexual behavior are:
- teens' relationships with parents and other adults.
- teens' own sexual beliefs, values, attitudes and skills.
- teens' socio-economic status.
- peer pressure.
- Youth who engage in same-sex sexual behavior:
- are more likely to engage in heterosexual sex.
- are less likely to engage in heterosexual sex.
- tend to have fewer sexual partners.
- are neither more nor less likely than heterosexual youth to engage
in risky sexual behavior.
- In order to change behavior, interventions should:
- address as many risk and protective factors as possible.
- concentrate on proximal factors only.
- target the particularly important factors.
- focus on the widest possible approaches.
- Risk and protective factors that are more amenable to change directly
by pregnancy and STD prevention agencies include all of the following,
EXCEPT:
- greater parent/child communication about sex and condoms or contraception.
- community social disorganization (e.g., violence, hunger and substance
abuse.
- peers' pro-childbearing attitudes or behavior.
- teens' permissive values about sex.
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