Adolescent Health Project
Organization
- Peter Bearman, Director
Overview
The Adolescent Health Project focuses on exploring adolescent health behavior across a wide array of health outcomes, including the transition to first sex, the structure of sexual and romantic networks, STD diffusion dynamics, abuse in adolescent relationships, attachment to school, adolescent suicidality, and same-sex attraction. Our data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Our methodological interests center on developing new approaches for measuring peer and relationship context and modeling temporal dynamics. Recent papers have focused on the effect of virginity pledges on the transition to first sex, the potential genetic foundations for same sex-attraction, and risk behaviors of middle-school youth.
See Also
- Research Grant: Healthy Adolescent Relationships: Temporal Dynamics, Normative Scripts, and the Transition to Sex
- Research Grant: Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
- Educational Program: Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
- Working paper: Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks
- Working paper: Opposite-Sex Twins and Adolescent Same-Sex Attraction
- Press release: After the Promise
- Announcement: ISERP in the News - Virginity Pledges
