AGE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF THE YOUTH


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The paper is devoted to the study of age and psychological aspects of sexual and reproductive health of the youth, sexual stereotypes, and reproductive behavior of the youth. In the work the authors analyze modern approaches to understanding of development specifics of the human sexuality in ontogenesis and define the reproductive behavior regulation levels. The paper determines gender and role identity formation at various age stages, considers the influence of a family and other social institutes on formation of gender and sexual behavior models. The authors substantiate the significance of youth and early maturity period as the stage of personal sexual identity development, phase of understanding and practicing personal sexual reactions, and forming relationships with the opposite gender.

The authors prove the essential need of considering the defined criteria of sexual health when studying the issue of providing the optimum conditions for personal sexual identity formation. Therefore we define social, historical and cultural factors of personal sexual identity formation, such as: social stratification, psychophysiological and social personal statuses conflict, and education. We postulate that the social and psychological regulators of reproductive behavior have different levels and analyze the features of sexual and reproductive behavior of the person having out-of-marriage sexual relations.

The paper contains the data of a pilot research aimed at revealing the basic peculiarities of the youth’s awareness about sexual health, marriage, reproductive and parent behavior. The data obtained through questionnaires give the representation of respondents’ awareness about social, psychological and medical (for instance, contraception) aspects of sexual health and reproductive motivation. The information presented in the conclusion of the research can be used within the psychological work in individual, pre-matrimonial and family consultations.

About the authors

Irina Stanislavovna Morozova

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo

Author for correspondence.
Email: ishmorozova@ya.ru

Doctor of Science (Psychology), Professor, Head of Chair “General Psychology and Developmental Psychology”

Russian Federation

Yulia Vyatcheslavovna Borisenko

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo

Email: evseenkova@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair “General Psychology and Developmental Psychology”

Russian Federation

Kseniya Nikolaevna Belogay

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo

Email: belogi@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair “General Psychology and Developmental Psychology”

Russian Federation

Tatiana Olegovna Ott

Kemerovo State University, Kemerovo

Email: olegovna5555@yandex.ru

PhD (Psychology), assistant professor of Chair “General Psychology and Developmental Psychology”

Russian Federation

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