Article: The relationship of sexual values and emotional awareness to sexual activity in young adulthood.

A sample of 170 college freshman completed assessments related to emotional awareness, sexual values, and levels of sexual activity. There was a significant relationship between sexual values and sexual activity. Abstinence values appear to be important in the decision to engage in sexual activity.

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Sexual values have been found to influence sexual behavior (Blinn-Pike, 1999; Miller, Norton, Fan, & Christopherson, 1998). The decision to initiate sexual activity appears to be multifaceted, including interpersonal, intrapersonal (Cauffman & Steinberg, 1996; Michels, Kropp, Eyre, & Halpern-Felsher 2005), environmental (Forste & Haas, 2002), and ...

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