美国家长对性教育内容的态度：与宗教信仰和政治倾向的关联

Parents’ attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation

——原载《性教育》，第24卷第1期，2024年1月——

<Sex Education>, 24 (1), January 2024

【摘要】虽然大多数家长支持青少年接受学校性教育，但最受家长支持的性教育主题却存在差异。保守的政治倾向和较高的宗教信仰与家长缺乏对学校性教育的支持独立相关；然而，没有研究考察这两个因素的交叉点。本研究的三个目标是：1）确定特定的性教育主题如何聚集在一起形成内容领域；2）检查宗教信仰和政治取向是否与这些内容领域有独特的关联；3）检查政治取向是否调节了父母的宗教信仰与他们对特定性教育内容领域的感知重要性之间的关系。参与者是881名美国家长的全国样本。性教育主题分为三个内容领域：事实知识（例如，性传播感染）、实践技能（例如，如何使用安全套）以及愉悦和身份（例如，性的愉悦方面）。政治保守和宗教信仰较多的父母报告称，每个内容领域的重要性最低。重要的是，这些主要影响是通过显著的相互作用来限定的。同时也报告了政治保守主义和高度宗教信仰的父母报告说，对其讲授的这三个内容领域的感知重要性最低。

【关键词】性教育；养育子女；宗教；政治倾向

[Abstract] While most parents support their adolescents receiving school-based sex education, there is variability in which sex education topics receive the most support from parents. Conservative political orientation and greater religiosity have been independently associated with parents’ lack of support for school-based sex education; however, no studies have examined the intersection of these two factors. The three goals of this study were to: 1) identify how specific sexual education topics cluster together to form content areas; 2) examine if religiosity and political orientation are uniquely associated with these content areas; and 3) examine if political orientation moderates the relationship between parents’ religiosity and their perceived importance for the specific sex education content areas. Participants were a national sample of 881 US parents. The sex education topics clustered into three content areas: Factual Knowledge (e.g., STI transmission), Practical Skills (e.g., how to access condoms), and Pleasure and Identity (e.g., pleasurable aspects of sex). Politically conservative and more religious parents reported the lowest perceived importance for each content area. Importantly, these main effects were qualified by a significant interaction: parents who reported both political conservativism and high levels of religiosity reported the lowest perceived importance for these three content areas being taught.

[Key Words] Sex education; parenting; religion; political orientation

论文原文：Jeffrey L. Hurst, Laura Widman, Julia Brasileiro, Anne J. Maheux, Reina Evans-Paulson & Sophia Choukas-Bradley (2024). Parents’ attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation. Sex Education. Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 108-124.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2022.2162871

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