The impact family structure has on sexual activity and educational aspirations for african american adolescents ages 12 – 17

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dc.contributor.author	Roberts, Shani Roshelle
dc.contributor.author	Moss, Rhonda Lewis
dc.date.accessioned	2007-09-04T19:59:03Z
dc.date.available	2007-09-04T19:59:03Z
dc.date.issued	2007-04-27
dc.identifier.citation	Roberts,Shani R. & Moss,Rhonda Lewis.(2007).The impact family structure has on sexual activity and educational aspirations for african american adolescents ages 12 – 17. In Proceedings : 3rd Annual Symposium : Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS : Wichita State University, p.155-156	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/839
dc.description	Paper presented to the 3rd Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Wichita State University, April 27, 2007.	en
dc.description	Research completed at the Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	en
dc.description	Shani Roberts received the 1st place award at the 2007 GRASP Symposium Non-Oral Division for this paper.	en
dc.description.abstract	Within the past few decades African Americans have made a lot of progress in educational attainment and achievement. The gaps between Caucasians and African Americans are slowly narrowing because more African American adolescents are completing high school and going on to college. The present analysis uses archival data collected as part of the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), which surveyed various health and educational variables of 462 African American adolescents. The present study serves to address three empirical questions: 1) Is there a relationship between educational aspirations and family structure; 2) Is there a relationship between educational aspirations and sexual activity; and 3) Is there a relationship between family structure and sexual activity? The results showed that there was a negative correlation between family structure and educational aspirations. As educational aspirations increased the number of parents in the home decreased, suggesting that having a single parent did not interfere with educational aspirations r = -.173. The results also showed that as educational aspirations increased, the number of sexual partners decreased r = -.141. There was no significant relationship between family structure and sexual activity.	en
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University. Graduate School.	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GRASP	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.3	en
dc.title	The impact family structure has on sexual activity and educational aspirations for african american adolescents ages 12 – 17	en
dc.type	Conference paper	en