Risk Factors for Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Fertility, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Adolescents at risk: prevalence and prevention

1991 • 1,204 citations

Structure of problem behavior in adolescence and young adulthood.

1985 • 1,154 citations

Structure of problem behavior in adolescence and young adulthood.

1985 • 886 citations

Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing.

1987 • 861 citations

The Impact of Social Status, Family Structure, and Neighborhood on the Fertility of Black Adolescents

1985 • 788 citations

Social Structure and Fertility: An Analytic Framework

1956 • 780 citations

Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Among Metropolitan-Area Teenagers: 1971-1979

1980 • 617 citations

Reducing the Risk: Impact of a New Curriculum on Sexual Risk-Taking

1991 • 402 citations

Religious Participation and Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Attitudes

1989 • 380 citations

Teenage Pregnancy in Developed Countries: Determinants and Policy Implications

1985 • 376 citations

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection among Patients Attending Clinics for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

1988 • 360 citations

Transition from virginity to nonvirginity among youth: A social-psychological study over time.

1975 • 350 citations

Sexual Activity, Condom Use and AIDS Awareness Among Adolescent Males

1989 • 321 citations

Biological Predispositions and Social Control in Adolescent Sexual Behavior

1988 • 297 citations

Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Parenting: Research through the 1980s

1990 • 281 citations

Early Onset of Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Drug Involvement

1990 • 262 citations

The Sexual and Reproductive Behavior of American Women, 1982-1988

1990 • 261 citations

Time of first intercourse: A prospective study.

1983 • 249 citations

Biopsychosocial Correlates of Risk-Taking Behaviors during Adolescence

1986 • 248 citations

First Intercourse Among Young Americans

1983 • 239 citations

Race Differences in the Timing of Adolescent Intercourse

1987 • 230 citations

Evaluation of a Pregnancy Prevention Program For Urban Teenagers

1986 • 229 citations

Parental Discipline and Control Attempts in Relation to Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

1986 • 220 citations

Linkages Between Sexual Activity and Alcohol and Drug Use Among American Adolescents

1988 • 206 citations

Serum androgenic hormones motivate sexual behavior in adolescent boys.

1985 • 190 citations

Patterns and Outcomes of Mother‐Daughter Communication About Sexuality

1980 • 185 citations

The Risk of Adolescent Pregnancy In the First Months of Intercourse

1979 • 181 citations

Parent-Child Communication and Adolescent Sexual Behavior

1985 • 172 citations

Parental Attitudes and the Occurrence of Early Sexual Activity

1986 • 166 citations

Crack, Sex, and STD

1991 • 164 citations

The Impact of Sex Education on Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use and Premarital Pregnancy Among American Teenagers

1986 • 164 citations

Nonvoluntary Sexual Activity Among Adolescents

1989 • 161 citations

Six School-Based Clinics: Their Reproductive Health Services and Impact on Sexual Behavior

1991 • 153 citations

The Courtship Process and Adolescent Sexuality

1990 • 149 citations

UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD: THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF TEENAGE CHILDBEARING

1977 • 148 citations

Serum androgenic hormones motivate sexual behavior in adolescent boys

1985 • 148 citations

Substance use and its relation to sexual activity among inner-city adolescents

1986 • 145 citations

The Effects of Sex Education on Adolescent Behavior

1986 • 145 citations

Contraceptive Practice in the United States, 1982-1988

1990 • 140 citations

Why They Delay: A Study of Teenage Family Planning Clinic Patients

1981 • 136 citations

The influence of male and female best friends on adolescent sexual behavior.

1985 • 130 citations

Premature Sexual Activity as an Indicator of Psychosocial Risk

1991 • 129 citations

Mother's Influence on the Sexual Behavior of Their Teenage Children

1984 • 127 citations

Sexually transmitted diseases.

1983 • 111 citations

Pubertal development and friends: a biosocial explanation of adolescent sexual behavior.

1985 • 110 citations

Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies

1990 • 109 citations

Predicting experimentation with cigarettes: the childhood antecedents of smoking study (CASS).

1987 • 105 citations

Parent and Peer Influence on Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy Experience of Young Women

1981 • 101 citations

Family Communication and Teenagers' Contraceptive Use

1984 • 99 citations

Social and Environmental Factors Influencing Contraceptive Use Among Black Adolescents

1985 • 96 citations

Biopsychosocial Correlates of risk-taking behaviors during adolescence

1986 • 96 citations

The Epidemiology and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents.

1990 • 95 citations

Pubertal Development and Friends: A Biosocial Explanation of Adolescent Sexual Behavior

1985 • 82 citations

Reported Sexual Behaviors and Self-esteem Among Young Adolescents

1989 • 80 citations

AIDS Community Demonstration Projects for HIV prevention among hard-to-reach groups.

1991 • 80 citations

Antecedents of Pregnancy among Unmarried Adolescents

1985 • 79 citations

Predicting Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: An Application and Test of the Fishbein Model

1984 • 79 citations

A meta-analysis of research on adolescent contraceptive use

1985 • 78 citations

Family Configuration in Relation to the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents

1989 • 77 citations

The association between smoking and sexual behavior among teens in US contraceptive clinics.

1984 • 75 citations

The Prevalence of Coercive Sexual Experience Among Teenage Mothers

1989 • 74 citations

Teenagers willing to consider single parenthood: who is at greatest risk?

1988 • 70 citations

Correlates of Age at First Sexual Intercourse in a National Sample of Young Women

1990 • 66 citations

Dating Age and Stage as Correlates of Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior

1986 • 63 citations

Adolescent pregnancy decision-making: are parents important?

1980 • 59 citations

Patterns of HIV risk and preventive behaviors among teenage men.

1992 • 58 citations

Demographics of Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Contraception, Pregnancy, and STDs

1992 • 53 citations

Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception

1986 • 46 citations

Teenagers Willing to Consider Single Parenthood: Who is at Greatest Risk?

1988 • 43 citations

Factors discriminating pregnancy resolution decisions of unmarried adolescents.

1983 • 42 citations

A Model of Friendship Similarity in Mildly Deviant Behaviors¹

1984 • 36 citations

Do the sisters of childbearing teenagers have increased rates of childbearing?

1986 • 32 citations

Analysis of contraceptive behavior of sexually active female adolescents in the United States

1988 • 31 citations

First Family Planning Visits by Young Women

1988 • 31 citations

Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Vol. 1

1988 • 31 citations

Interpersonal factors in premarital contraception

1987 • 30 citations

The Multiple Dimensions of Sexual Behavior As Risk Factor for Sexually Transmitted Disease

1989 • 29 citations

Postponing sexual involvement among adolescents

1985 • 26 citations

Identifying social and psychological antecedents of adolescent pregnancy: The contribution of research to concepts of prevention

1987 • 26 citations

School achievement: risk factor in teenage pregnancies?

1978 • 7 citations

Hospital-based employees' opinions about adolescents of four racial—Ethnic groups

1981 • 3 citations