title: A Path Analysis of Latino Parental, Teenager and Cultural Variables in Teenagers' Sexual Attitudes, Norms, Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Intentions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to test a theoretical model based on the Parent-Based Expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior examining relation between selected parental, teenager and cultural variables and Latino teenagers' intentions to engage in sexual behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  a cross-sectional correlational design based on a secondary data analysis of 130 Latino parent and teenager dyads.
  
  
  RESULTS
  regression and path analysis procedures were used to test seven hypotheses and the results demonstrated partial support for the model. Parent familism and knowledge about sex were significantly associated with parents' attitudes toward sexual communication with their teenagers. Parent Latino acculturation was negatively associated with parents' self-efficacy toward sexual communication with their teenagers and positevely associated with parents' subjective norms toward sexual communication with their teenagers. Teenager knowledge about sex was significantly associated with higher levels of teenagers' attitudes and subjective norms about sexual communication with parents. Only the predictor of teenagers' attitudes toward having sex in the next 3 months was significantly associated with teenagers' intentions to have sex in the next 3 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the results of this study provide important information to guide future research that can inform development of interventions to prevent risky teenager sexual behavior among Latinos.
authors: School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
authors: Vanessa Pirani
authors: VP
authors: Gaioso
authors: School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US.
authors: Antonia Maria
authors: AM
authors: Villarruel
authors: School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
authors: Lynda Anne
authors: LA
authors: Wilson
authors: School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
authors: Andres
authors: A
authors: Azuero
authors: School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
authors: Gwendolyn Denice
authors: GD
authors: Childs
authors: School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
authors: Susan Lane
authors: SL
authors: Davies
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*