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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on April 12, 2005
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Journal of Pediatric Psychology © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received August 9, 2004
Revised July 29, 2010
Accepted March 7, 2005

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Supportive Relationships and Sexual Risk Behavior in Adolescence: An Ecological-Transactional Approach

Christopher C. Henrich PhD1*, Kathryn A. Brookmeyer MA1, Lydia A. Shrier MD, MPH2, and Golan Shahar PhD3

1 Georgia State University
2 Harvard University
3 Yale University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Christopher C. Henrich, E-mail: chenrich{at}gsu.edu


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Objective To examine the longitudinal associations between supportive relationships with friends and parents and sexual risk behavior in adolescence based on an ecological-transactional perspective. Methods Analyses were conducted on 2,652 sexually active adolescents from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results African-American adolescents had lower risk for sexual risk behavior. Supportive friendships and parent connectedness interacted in predicting decreased likelihood of sexual risk behavior. Mother-child communication about sex contributed to decreased likelihood of sexual risk only for girls. There were also small reciprocal effects of sexual risk behavior on decreased relationship quality over time. Conclusion To better understand the parents’ role in adolescent sexual risk behavior, multiple facets of parenting, the social contexts of parenting and adolescents’ peers, and the effects of adolescents’ behavior on these relationships should be taken into consideration.

Keywords: adolescence; friends; HIV/AIDS; parents; sexual risk behavior.
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