Adolescents' Honesty in a Survey of Sexual Behavior
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Adolescent Research
- Vol. 3 (3-4), 419-423
- https://doi.org/10.1177/074355488833014
Abstract
Adolescents' reports of whether they told the truth about having had intercourse when answering a two years prior survey of sexual behavior are used to examine the correlates of such behavior. Seven percent of the young people say they did not tell the truth at Time 1. Another substan tial proportion seem to be unclear about what they said, and, perhaps, about the timing of their first intercourse. Implications of these findings for survey researchers are discussed.Keywords
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