Psychology: Research and Review
Table 4 Comparisons of the individual factors considering early sexual initiation and inconsistent use of condoms (n = 80)
From: Individual and contextual factors associated with sexual initiation among adolescents
Individual factors | Early sexual initiation | Inconsistent use | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes (n = 54) | No (n = 26) | p | Yes (n = 32) | No (n = 48) | p | |
% (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |||
Gender | 0.36 | 0.91 | ||||
Boys | 86.2 (25) | 13.7 (4) | 41.7 (15) | 58.3 (21) | ||
Girls | 74.3 (29) | 25.6 (10) | 40.5 (17) | 59.5 (25) | ||
Schooling | 0.5 | |||||
6th year | 100 (6) | 0.0 (0) | 33.3 (2) | 66.7 (4) | 0.96 | |
7th year | 83.3 (15) | 16.6 (3) | 40.0 (8) | 60.0 (12) | ||
8th year | 82.3 (14) | 17.6 (3) | 45.0 (9) | 55.0 (11) | ||
9th year | 74.1 (20) | 25.9 (7) | 40.6 (13) | 59.4 (19) | ||
School repetition | ||||||
Never repeated | 100 (23) | 0.0 (0) | 0.00** | 29.2 (7) | 70.8 (17) | 0.09 |
Repeated 1 time | 88.5 (23) | 11.5 (3) | 52.0 (13) | 48.0 (12) | ||
Repeated 2 times | 68.8 (11) | 31.1 (5) | 55.6 (10) | 44.4 (8) | ||
Repeated 3 times or more | 44.4 (4) | 55.6 (5) | 18.2 (2) | 81.8 (9) | ||
Religion | ||||||
Yes. practicing | 90.4 (19) | 9.5 (2) | 0.66 | 47.8 (11) | 52.2 (12) | 0.58 |
Yes. Not practicing | 74.2 (26) | 25.7 (9) | 41.0 (16) | 59.0 (23) | ||
No | 75.0 (9) | 25.0 (3) | 31.3 (5) | 68.8 (11) | ||
Alcoholic beverages | ||||||
No | 78.9 (15) | 21.1 (4) | 0.00** | 33.3 (7) | 66.7 (14) | 0.37 |
Yes | 79.5 (39) | 20.4 (10) | 44.6 (25) | 55.4 (31) | ||
Tobacco | ||||||
No | 81.1 (43) | 18.8 (10) | 0.00** | 34.9 (22) | 65.1 (41) | 0.02* |
Yes | 73.3 (11) | 26.6 (4) | 66.7 (10) | 33.3 (5) | ||
Illicit drugs | ||||||
No | 83.0 (44) | 16.9 (9) | 0.00** | 35.5 (22) | 64.5 (40) | 0.05* |
Yes | 66.6 (10) | 33.3 (5) | 62.5 (10) | 37.5 (6) | ||