Paauglių lytinės elgsenos ir psichoemocinės būsenos sąsaja

Abstract

Anger and aggression leelings are more characteristic of sexually active adolescents in comparison with those having no such experience (15.5 and 8.8 per cent respectively, p<0.001). The analysis of die research data discloses the fact that adolescents having addictions are more often sexually active, with statistical significance. It was distinguished that 23.9 per cont of non-smoking pupils or pupils who have only tried out smoking have sexual relations at least once a week, in comparison with the 60.8 per cent of those who smoke at least once a week (p<0.0001). Meanwhile, 31.4 per cent of those who do not drink beer or only drink during festivities and 53.0 per cent of beer drinkers have sexual relations at least weekly (p<0.0001); 35.1 per cent of pupils who do not use wine or use it only during festivities and 58.6 per cent of weekly wine drinkers have sex once a week or more often (p<0.0001); 32.1 per cent of pupils who do not use vodka or other strong drinks or use them only during celebrations and 60.7 per cent of those using strong drinks at least once a week have weekly sexual relations or have sex more often (p<0.0001). Adolescent problems (smoking, alcohol and other narcotic substance abuse, early sexual relations, as well as poor psychoemotional states) have common roots and are interrelated. Therefore, they should be solved in a complex way, and intervention measures should be connected as a whole. Recently, sexual behavior of adolescents and related problems has become the scope of numerous cases of scientific research carried out in Lithuania. They reflect developmental trends of adolescent sexual relationships. The issue of adolescent sexual experience is becoming increasingly acute due to the increasing number of sexually active adolescents and due to constantly decreasing age periods of adolescents having sexual experience. Early sexual experience is related with different health problems (adolescent pregnancy, sexually transferred infections, drug abuse and psychical health problems). A frequent outcome of early sexual relations is juvenile pregnancy of girls. The object of the research is sexual behavior of 11- 12th form school learners. The aim of the present article is to disclose interrelationships among adolescent sexual behavior, psychoe-motional states and risk behavior. The objectives of the research: 1. To distinguish trends of the spreading of adolescent sexual relations in age and gender groups. 2. To disclose interrelations between adolescent psychoemotional states and early sexual experiences. Research sample characteristics and methods applied. The research involved 11 - 12lh form school learners from general education schools located in regions of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, Panevezys, Aly-tus, Marijampole, Utena, Taurage and Telsiai. The main method applied during the research was anonymous questionnaire-based surveying. 1035 school learners aged 16 - 19 (including 385 boys and 650 girls) took part in the research. Peculiarities of 11-12"1 form school learner sexual behavior. The research authors had a goal to disclose spreading of 11 - 12th form school learner sexual relations in different age and gender groups on the basis of the criterion of presence or absence of sexual relations and their dependency on the age group. It was distinguished that over one third of the research participants (36.1 per cent) have had sexual relations. The percentage of both boys and girls having had sexual relations increases simultaneously with their age. The percentage of seventeen-year-olds having had sexual experience is approximately one fourth (25.5 per cent); meanwhile, this number is equal to 39.7 per cent among eighteen-year-olds and more than half (55.6 per cent) among nineteen-year-olds (p<0.0001). When calculating the said results according to gender groups, it becomes clear that almost half (47.3 per cent) of all the boys participating in the research have had sexual relations; meanwhile, this number equals to almost one third (29.5 per cent) among girls. The percentage of sexually experienced boys is often 1.5 times higher than that of girls (p<0.0001). To have a deeper insight into peculiarities of adolescent sexual behaviour, the following question was included in the questionnaire: "Do you live a sexual life at present?" Almost one third (30.6 per cent) of boys and nearly one fifth of girls (19.2 per cent) provided positive answers to this question. The above percentages are lower in comparison with the total number of adolescents having ever had sexual relations (by one fifth in the case of boys and by one tenth in the case of girls). This allows making a hypothesis that part of the pupils have had accidental sexual relations. The above-mentioned kind of relations is connected with a higher level of risk for human sexual and psychical health. The majority of the questionnaire responders acquired their first sexual experiences at the age of sixteen (30.7 per cent) or seventeen (33.4 per cent). Relations of psychoemotional states, addictions and sexual behaviour. In order to evaluate the responders' psychoemotional states, we asked the research participants to evaluate in the questionnaire some of their psychological states and feelings: happiness, suicidal intentions, manifestations of anger and aggression, as well as the frequency of behavior violating behavioral rules for school learners. The learners also answered the question on school anxiety and feeling tension at school, as well as on the frequency of the above feelings. In this case, the responders had a multiple choice task. Nearly one third (31.3 per cent) of adolescents having sexual experience do not feel happy, in comparison with one fourth (25.0 per cent) of responders with no sexual experience. The percentages of pupils who feel totally unhappy are 1.7 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively. On the average, the feelings of school anxiety and tension are characteristic of every fifth 11-121'1 form learner having had sexual relations. The evaluation of suicidal attitudes and intentions indicates that almost one third of the responders sometimes think of committing suicide. 12.6 per cent of the adolescents having sexual experience often have such thoughts, and the number of pupils making serious suicidal plans and having tried to commit it is twice as little (6.8 per cent) in the case of pupils with no sexual experience. On the average, every tenth adolescent experiences anger and aggression feelings constantly or often. 8.8 per cent of 11 - 12th form learners having sexual experience often or constantly behave on ihe contrary to the requirements provided in pupil behavior norms.