The role of the (absence of) sex - positive parenting in the development of risky sexual behavior in late adolescence

Seks – pozitivno roditeljstvo je proces koji promiče pozitivan stav prema vlastitoj i tuđoj seksualnosti te koji svakome djetetu omogućuje razvoj znanja, vještina i vrijednosti na način primjeren njegovoj dobi i razvoju kako bi moglo donositi odluke u skladu sa svojom psihičkom, fizičkom i emocionalnom dobrobiti. Rizično seksualno ponašanje označava svako ponašanje unutar seksualnih aktivnosti koje povećava mogućnost negativnih ishoda koji mogu imati neželjene posljedice na fizičko i psihičko zdravlje te različite odnosne dimenzije. Cilj empirijskog dijela ovog rada istražiti je prisutnost rizičnih ponašanja i seks – pozitivnog roditeljstva te identificirati ulogu seks – pozitivnog roditeljstva u razvojnom kontekstu rizičnih seksualnih ponašanja u kasnoj adolescenciji. Istraživanje je provedeno metodom online anketiranja na uzorku od 225 studenata različitih fakulteta na hrvatskim sveučilištima. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju da je rizično seksualno ponašanje prisutno kod većeg dijela adolescenata, točnije 82,2%, što je u skladu s rezultatima transkontinentalnih istraživanja. Seks – pozitivno roditeljstvo bilo je prisutno tijekom odrastanja manjeg dijela adolescenata, točnije njih 27,6%. Osim toga, rezultati ukazuju da su navedeni adolescenti, neovisno o spolu, češće komunicirali s majkom nego s ocem. Kod pojedinih ispitanika postoji negativna korelacija između seks - pozitivnog roditeljstva i rizičnog seksualnog ponašanja, ali kada gledamo uzorak u cjelini, ne postoji statistički značajna povezanost.Sex - positive parenting is a process that promotes a positive attitude towards one's own and other people's sexuality and that enables each child to develop knowledge, skills and values in an appropriate way for his age and development so that he can make decisions in accordance with his psychological, physical and emotional well-being. Risky sexual behavior is any behavior within sexual activities that increases the possibility of negative outcomes that may have unwanted consequences on physical and psychological health and different relationship dimensions. The objective of the empirical part of this paper is to investigate the presence of risky behaviors and sex-positive parenting and to identify the role of sex-positive parenting in the developmental context of risky sexual behaviors in late adolescence. The research was conducted by online survey method amongst 225 students of Croatian faculties. The results of the research indicate that risky sexual behavior was present in the majority of adolescents, 82.2% to be exact, which is consistent with the results of transcontinental research. Sex - positive parenting was present throughout the growing up of a smaller part of adolescents, 27.6% to be exact. In addition, the results indicate that the aforementioned adolescents, regardless of gender, communicated more often with their mothers than with their fathers. In some adolescents, there is a negative correlation between sex - positive parenting and risky sexual behavior, but when we look at the sample as a whole, there is no statistically significant correlation