title: Waiting for the right time: how and why young Thai women manage to avoid heterosexual intercourse.
abstract: Nineteen young Thai women were purposively selected from networks of nongovernmental organizations involving children and youths in Bangkok. Our grounded theory findings indicated that these young women used the basic social process they called "waiting for the right time" in order to maintain heterosexual abstinence. Waiting for the right time involved one overarching condition, honoring parental love, and included three overlapping properties: learning rules, planning life path, and ways of preserving virginity. The findings provide information that may lead to the development of culturally competent interventions for middle-class Thai youths to remain healthy and avoid pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health Nursing, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Samut Prakarn 10540, Thailand. pinhatai05@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Pinhatai
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Supametaporn
authors.forename: Phyllis Noerager
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: Branom
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rodcumdee
authors.forename: Waraporn
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chaiyawat
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D012919:Social Behavior; D013785:Thailand; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult