%0 Journal Article
%T Factors related to sexual knowledge among Malaysian adolescents
%A Siti Nor Y
%A Wong Fui-Ping
%A Rozumah B
%A Mariani M
%J Jurnal Kemanusiaan
%D 2010
%I Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
%X This influence of gender, race, age and personal belief on adolescent¡¯s sexual knowledge was examined. The respondents for the study were 860 school¨Cgoing adolescents aged 13 to 18 from urbanization city in Peninsular Malaysia. Data were collected by using self-administered questionnaire. A cultural sensitive sexual knowledge scale was developed and employed to measure respondent¡¯s sexual knowledge. Descriptive, bivariate and multiple statistical tests were conducted to examine the relationships between gender, race, age and personal belief with adolescents¡¯ sexual knowledge. Findings of the present study showed that: 1) No significant mean difference in sexual knowledge between boys and girls. 2) There was a statistically significant difference in the mean of sexual knowledge among the three races (F (2,766) =14.84, p¡Ü.001). 3) Respondents with higher score in sexual knowledge tend to be older (r=.21, p¡Ü.05), have lower score on extent of living a life according to the religious belief (r=-.07, p¡Ü.05), have lower self-perceived importance of religion in life (r=-.11, p¡Ü.01), have higher self-perceived sexual openness (r=-.31, p¡Ü.01) and have more positive attitude toward sex related sources (r=.35, p¡Ü.01). Findings of this study will help to further improve the understanding of adolescents¡¯ sexual knowledge and to give inputs to programs on adolescent development specifically in sexuality and reproduction health.
%K adolescents
%K sexual knowledge
%K personal beliefs
%K age
%K gender
%K race
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