期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2000
卷号：9
期号：6 (50)
页码：867-893
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The paper examines the extent and structural characteristics of sexual risk-taking (SRT) in student population. The introductory section offers a definition of SRT, the age specific contributing factors, and a brief overview of related bihevioral research – including all the studies carried out in Croatia (1973-1998). Four hypotheses regarding SRT in late adolescence are tested in the empirical part of the paper, which is based on data collected in the 1998 survey on sexual knowledge, attitudes and behavior carried out on 1355 freshmen at the University of Zagreb. The results confirm the first three hypotheses (regarding the normalcy or omnipresence of SRT, gender specific and sequentially organized structure of SRT), but offer only partial support for the contextual rationality thesis, suggesting instead a complex interplay of rational and irrational (habitual) elements as the psychological background of SRT. The concluding section discusses also more pragmatic, i. e. the applied aspects of the research on SRT, calling for SRT prevention in Croatia through comprehensive school-based sexual education.
