The Role of Unwanted First Sexual Experience in Predicting Situational Efficacy in Risky Sexual Choices Among Adolescents

• In Event: Roundtable Session 84
  In Roundtable Session: Negotiating Adolescent Development

Abstract

In the present study, we specifically examining the relations of adolescents’ age of their first sexual experience and the incidence and risk factors of unwanted sexual activity among adolescents, as predictor variables of adolescents’ situational efficacy (SE). Using the conceptual framework Expectancy-Value theory, with particular focus on the subjective value of cost in decision making in any changing situation; attempting to understand adolescents’ situational efficacy (SE) in making cost decision – cost defined as what one gives up to do a task and the anticipated effort needed to complete the task – in respect to their sexual behavior in the context of HIV/AIDS prevention.

Authors

• Charles Obugo Okonkwo, Ohio State University

• Hui Jiang, The Ohio State University

• Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University