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Individual Growth Curves Of Frequency Of Sexual Intercourse Among Urban, Adolescent, African American Youth: Results From The Champ Basic Study, Christian Delucia, Roberta Paikoff, Grayson Holmbeck
Individual Growth Curves Of Frequency Of Sexual Intercourse Among Urban, Adolescent, African American Youth: Results From The Champ Basic Study, Christian Delucia, Roberta Paikoff, Grayson Holmbeck
Grayson Holmbeck
In the current study we examined individual growth curves of frequency of sexual intercourse among a sample of urban, low-income, African American youth at increased risk for subsequent HIV/AIDS exposure. Three waves of longitudinal data from the Collaborative HIV-Prevention Adolescent Mental Health (CHAMP) project were utilized. Participant ages ranged from 9 to 12 years (M = 11 years) at the first interview wave and from 15 to 19 years (M = 18 years) at the final interview wave. As such, we were able to map out true developmental trajectories of sexual intercourse over a 10-year period of adolescence (spanning ages …