@article{ref1,
title="Family financial stress and adolescent sexual risk-taking: the role of self-regulation",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2016",
author="Crandall, AliceAnn and Magnusson, Brianna M. and Novilla, M. Lelinneth B. and Novilla, Lynneth Kirsten B. and Dyer, W. Justin",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="45-62",
abstract="The ability to control one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors is known as self-regulation. Family stress and low adolescent self-regulation have been linked with increased engagement in risky sexual behaviors, which peak in late adolescence and early adulthood. The purpose of this study was to assess whether adolescent self-regulation, measured by parent and adolescent self-report and respiratory sinus arrhythmia, mediates or moderates the relationship between family financial stress and risky sexual behaviors. We assessed these relationships in a 4-year longitudinal sample of 450 adolescents (52 % female; 70 % white) and their parents using structural equation modeling. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that high family financial stress predicts engagement in risky sexual behaviors as mediated, but not moderated, by adolescent self-regulation. The results suggest that adolescent self-regulatory capacities are a mechanism through which proximal external forces influence adolescent risk-taking. Promoting adolescent self-regulation, especially in the face of external stressors, may be an important method to reduce risk-taking behaviors as adolescents transition to adulthood.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-016-0543-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0543-x"
}