Sexuality of 15/16-year-old girls and boys with and without modest disabilities

Brunnberg, Elinor,1948-Örebro universitet,Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete,ICU - I See You (författare)

Girls and boys with disabilities, 15-16 years of age, report a significantly higher rate of sexual debut than adolescents with no disabilities. In a society where a young person with a disability often is considered to have an essentially asexual status, there can be several fronts for adolescents to fight. The survey Life and Health - Young People 2005 was completed by 3,084 adolescents attending mainstream schools in Sweden. In this study the sexual debut in girls and boys with and without disabilities is related to mental health, school exposure and substance use. Our findings might be explained by a mechanism of identity construction from the adolescents' ideas of normality and by a battle for acceptance and confirmation of life. The ideas of normality can be erroneous but still influence the adolescents' sexual activity. Multivariate analyses also showed that the relationship between sex and substance use is strong among all adolescents.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Sociologi Socialt arbete hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology Social Work hsv//eng
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP Hälsovetenskap Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi hsv//swe
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES Health Sciences Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology hsv//eng
disability; adolescents; gender; sexual debut; substance use; Sweden
Social work
Socialt arbete
Disability research
Handikappsforskning
Youth research
Ungdomsforskning
Community medicine
Samhällsmedicin
Social Work
Socialt arbete
Gender Studies
Genusvetenskap
Handikappvetenskap
Disability Science
Sweden
Substance use
Sexual debut
Gender
Disability
Adolescents

Lindén Boström, MargaretaÖrebro County Council, Department of Community,ICU - I See You(Swepub:oru)mlm (författare)
Berglund, MatsLund University,Lunds universitet,Kliniskt Centrum för Hälsofrämjande Vård,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Clinical Health Promotion Centre,Lund University Research Groups(Swepub:lu)alk-mbe (författare)
Örebro universitetAkademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete (creator_code:org_t)

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