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| Personal Name | Zabala, Rianna Mariel M. |
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| Resource Title | “Are you ready?” : determining the predictors of Filipino late adolescents’ intentions to engage in their first sexual encounter |
| Date Issued | 4 June 2025 |
| Abstract | This study aimed to determine the predictors of Filipino late adolescents’ intentions to engage in their first sexual encounters. Using the theory of planned behavior as its main theoretical framework, it examined whether attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and the frequency of interpersonal sexual communication as an additional variable influence the intentions to engage in first sexual encounters among late adolescents. A quantitative research design was employed, and a survey questionnaire was administered to gather data from respondents through convenience sampling on different social media platforms. Descriptive statistics and ordinal logistic regression were conducted to determine these predictors. The results revealed only certain aspects of the three core constructs predicted these intentions. These include attitudes toward the significance of the encounter and the beneficialness of the encounter to the romantic relationship, subjective norms toward the romantic partner, and perceived behavioral control on confidence, which all significantly and positively predicted the intentions. This suggests that more positive dispositions regarding these lead to stronger intentions. However, perceived behavioral control on ease was shown to be negatively associated with intentions. This indicates that as late adolescents perceive their first sexual encounters as more easily achievable, the intentions to engage in this behavior decrease. For the frequency of interpersonal sexual communication, only communication with romantic partners on potentially having sex significantly and positively predicted the intentions, which suggests that having more conversations with romantic partners leads to stronger intentions to engage. On the other hand, communication with opposite-sex friends was found to be negatively associated with the intentions, which may mean that the more late adolescents have conversations with opposite-sex friends about potentially ha |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication : Interpersonal and Instructional Communication |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Sexual ethics for teenagers--Philippines.; adolescent sexuality; sexual behavior; sexual communication; late adolescence; Filipino adolescence; Teenagers--Sexual behavior--Philippines; Communication in sex--Philippines |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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