Authors Alison Parkes, Andrea Waylen, Kapil Sayal, Jon Heron, Marion Henderson, Daniel Wight, John Macleod
Published by Journal of Youth and Adolescence, April 2014
SUMMARY
The team of researchers looked at associations between a number of problems that can occur in middle childhood (six to 12 years) and early sexual behaviour. Their study - Which Behavioural, Emotional and School Problems in Middle-childhood Predict Early Sexual Behaviour? - uses a sample of 4,739 young people from birth cohort study the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, which comprises children born in the county of Avon between April 1991 and December 1992. They wanted to find out which kinds of problems were predictors of early sexual behaviour and whether the timing and persistence of those problems during a young person's childhood had an effect, as well as investigating any gender differences.
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