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Article name Premarital Sexual Attitudes of Girls in a Polycultural Environment
Authors Sitnikov V.L. Doctor of Psychology, Professor, sitnikof@mail.ru
Il̕ chenko V.V. Candidate of Psychology, Associate Professor, vilchen@mail.ru
Bibliographic description Sitnikov V. L., Il̕ chenko V. V. Premarital Sexual Attitudes of Girls in a Polycultural Environment // Scholarly Notes of Transbaikal State University. Series Pedagogical Sciences. 2016. Vol. 11, No. 5. PP. 107–114. DOI: 10.21209/2542-0089-2016-11-5-107-114.
Section SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
UDK 159.9
DOI 10.21209/2542-0089-2016-11-5-107-114
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Annotation Psychosexual well-being of middle and late adolescent girls appears to be the guarantee of future full-fledged family and sexual life. In the present study we reveal distinctions in pre-marital attitudes of Ossetian and Russian girls, living in the Republic of North Ossetia – Alania (Russia). The sample included secondary-school girls and students from Vladikavkaz. We reveal that Ossetian girls are likely to have more conservative attitudes towards premarital sex than the Russian ones. The majority of Ossetian girls think it is not acceptable to have sex before marriage and believe that premarital sex may have negative effect on the future marriage life. At the same time, premarital attitudes of Ossetian and Russian girls living in the RSO-Alania are more conservative, as compared with contemporaries from other regions of Russia. Thus, in North Ossetia socio-cultural settings and norms have the strongest influence on premarital attitudes and sexual activity. The study also shows that the girls who consider themselves sexually not well informed were less active in sexual behavior, had conservative pre-marital attitudes and higher level of personal anxiety and nervousness than sexually well informed contemporaries.
Key words premarital sexual attitudes, psychosexual development, ethnicity and sociocultural settings, sources of sexual information, personal anxiety, nervousness
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