Abstract
This study explored ethnic and gender differences in sexual behavior and its correlates among 148 Caucasian American and 202 Asian American college students (mean age = 19.8 years). Among Asian Americans, differences in mean number of sexual partners were not associated with differences in generational status, ethnic subgroup, or level of acculturation as indicated by language usage at home. As expected, Caucasian Americans reported having had more sexual partners by late adolescence to young adulthood than did Asian Americans, and males reported having had more partners than females, especially among Caucasian Americans. Measures of peer interactions and attitudinal and dispositional characteristics showed consistent relations with number of sexual partners, but measures of perceived family relationships did not. In light of the age group under study, discriminant analyses were used to explore those attributes that distinguish between virgins and nonvirgins, as well as between individuals reporting only ...
Highlights
Title Family, peer, and individual correlates of sexual experience among Caucasian and Asian American late adolescents
Caucasian American males reported a higher number of sexual partners over their lifetime (M = 4.16) than did Asian American males (M = 1.13)
Before we examine the associations between late adolescents' level of sexual experience and their family, peer, and individual characteristics, we summarized ethnic and gender differences in these characteristics based on a series of two-way ANOVAs
Summary
Participants were 148 Caucasian American and 202 Asian American students attending a state university in California. They were recruited from a variety of social science courses to participate in a study of cultural, family, and peer influences on late adolescent and early adult development. The face-sheet containing the students' name (necessary for assigning course credit) was removed, code numbered, and placed in a locked file. In the Caucasian American subsample, 25% were male and 75% female. In the Asian American subsample, 34% were male and 66% female. This gender distribution was comparable to that in the academic departments from which participants were drawn, in which females comprised approximately 56% to 72% of students.
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