Abstract:
The purpose of this research study was to examine factors that were related to sexual intercourse of Mathayom Suksa Three students in Bangkok. The participants were 610 students in seven different schools in Bangkok who participated in the present study through the purposive sampling technique. After obtaining a passive parental consent, the researcher had the students completed a set of confidential self-administered questionnaires. The questionnaires were divided into two parts: the first part included questions about participants' personal information (including sexual behavior), drinking behavior, and pornography exposure. The second part included questions about participants' family functioning, self-esteem, sensation seeking, attitude toward teenage sex, and peer norms. From their responses, the participants were classified into 3 groups: the non-sexually active group who intended to engage in sexual intercourse in the next 6-12 months, the non-sexually active group who had no such intentions and the sexually active group. Data were analyzed separately by gender using the Multiple Discriminant Analysis with a stepwise method. Wilks' Lambda was used as an entry criterion to identify factors that helped predict students' engagement in sexual intercourse. Results indicated that there were 5 predictor variables that helped categorize male participants into 3 groups (Wilks' Lambda = .346, p<.001) and yielded the total predictive efficiency of 82.90%. Findings from the analysis of these participants were as follows: 1. The non-sexually active male participants who did not intend to engage in sexual intercourse in the next 6-12 months reported high family functioning, high self-esteem but low peer norms. These participants also reported low sensation seeking and low exposure to pornography. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 82.90%. 2. The non-sexually active male participants who intended to engage in sexual intercourse in the next 6-12 months reported low family functioning, average self-esteem but high peer norms. These participants also reported high sensation seeking and average exposure to pornography. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 63.60%. 3. The sexually active male participants reported low family functioning, perceived high peer norms, high sensation seeking, high exposure to pornography, but low self-esteem. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 79.20%.
Abstract:
Additionally, 6 predictive variables helped categorize female participants into 3 groups (Wilks' Lambda = .243, p<.001) and yielded the total predictive efficiency of 88.30%. Findings from the analysis of these participants were as follows: 1. The non-sexually active female participants who did not intend to engage in sexual intercourse in the next 6-12 months reported high family functioning, high self-esteem but low peer norms. These participants also reported low sensation seeking, low attitude toward teenage sex and low exposure to pornography. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 94.80%. 2. The non-sexually active female participants who intended to engage in a sexual intercourse in the next 6-12 months reported low family functioning, average self-esteem but high peer norms. These participants also reported average sensation seeking, high attitude toward teenage sex and high exposure to pornography. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 76.30%. 3. The sexually active female participants reported low family functioning, low self-esteem but high peer norms, high sensation seeking, high attitude toward teenage sex and high exposure to pornography. The predictive efficiency of these predictor variables was 79.20%.