Developmental Trajectories of Sexual Risk Behaviors and Their Relationships With Other Risk Factors Have Not Been Well Established From a Longitudinal Perspective

David Y. C. Huang,Debra A. Murphy and Yih-Ing Hser studied the Developmental Trajectory of Sexual Risk Behaviors From Adolescence to Young Adulthood. According to Y. C. Huang, Murphy and Hser (2012): ’’While associations of sexual risk behaviors with other problem behaviors and contextual factors have been widely discussed, developmental trajectories of sexual risk behaviors and their relationships with other risk factors have not been well established from a longitudinal perspective’’(p.481). The study has been done between a group of 24 and 28 years-old. The study conclude many things, first the sexual risks can be affect by a lot of characteristics as for example, friend influence, mother support, father support, ethnicity, gender etc… However, researchers found that drug and alcohol users at the age of 15 were more at risk for sexual activities than a non-user. The relationship between the marijuana consumption and sexual risks were correlate at every age, however the consumption differ from age to age and it affect the sexual risks from age to age. They conclude that sexual risks were often related to delinquent behaviours.

Y. C. Huang, D., A. Murphy, D., & Hser, Y. (2011). Developmental Trajectory of Sexual Risk                           Behaviors From Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Youth & Society, 44(4), 479 –499.