Are attitudes and intentions towards sex associated with risky sexual behaviour in urban Western Australian adolescents?

A survey dataset of 1616 heterosexual West Australian adolescents was used to create three psychometric scales, through application of the Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Model. Attitudes towards abortion, adolescent parenthood and contraception were each associated with sexual behaviours linked to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hendriks, Jacqueline
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1198