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Owner: Hyun Ji Lee
Owner Email: hyunjilee07@gmail.com
Paper Title: Who Gets More Benefit From Sexual Health Education and When? (Poster 8)
Session Title: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts 2
Paper Type: Poster Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/13/2024
Presentation Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descriptors: Adolescence, Equity, Motivation
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Hyun Ji Lee, The Ohio State University; August Masonheimer, The Ohio State University; Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University
Unit: Division C - Learning and Instruction
Abstract: A sexual health intervention program was implemented among 2,038 7th graders in 19 middle schools from the midwestern US to address gaps in teen health and improve health equity. Latent growth models revealed that Latinx and Black students were those who initially reported low levels of refusal self-efficacy, less positive attitudes and norms about abstinence, and higher intentions to have sex. They also received more benefits from the intervention, demonstrating a greater increase in refusal self-efficacy and adaptive attitudes and norms, and a lower increase in intention to have sex. Importantly, a motivational climate (i.e., perceived mastery goal orientation) in health class generally facilitated students’ learning from the intervention program largely regardless of student gender/ethnic/racial/socioeconomic backgrounds.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2106757