Impulsivity and the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience and Risky Sexual Behaviors in At Risk Adolescent Girls

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dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, Nikita
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-15T17:18:49Z
dc.date.available2018-12-15T17:18:49Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description28 pages. Presented to the Department of Psychology and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts June 2018
dc.description.abstractResearch links early childhood adversity to sexual risk behaviors during adolescence, but little is known about whether individual differences in impulsivity can impact this association (Kovensky & Leve, 2017). Baseline data from 122 at-risk adolescent girls participating in the longitudinal “Safe, Healthy, Adolescent Relationships and Peers” (SHARP) study was analyzed to examine impulsivity as a moderator of the association between early adversity and sexual risk behaviors. Nearly two-thirds of the sample was recruited from the Department of Youth Services (DYS), and the remaining from community agencies and schools serving at-risk girls in Lane County, Oregon. Results revealed that impulsivity was not a significant moderator of the relation between adverse childhood experiences and risky sexual behaviors. Future research should investigate the same hypothesis with specific categories of adverse childhood experiences and explore the mediating role of impulsivity in better understanding the relation between early adversity and sexual risk behaviors in adolescent girls.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24073
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectImpulsivityen_US
dc.subjectAdverse childhooden_US
dc.subjectSexual healthen_US
dc.subjectGirlsen_US
dc.subjectRisky sexual behavioren_US
dc.subjectAt risksen_US
dc.subjectSexen
dc.titleImpulsivity and the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience and Risky Sexual Behaviors in At Risk Adolescent Girls
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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