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College Students' Sexual Knowledge And Attitudes, Jean Claude Martin, Jennifer Y. Mak Jan 2013

College Students' Sexual Knowledge And Attitudes, Jean Claude Martin, Jennifer Y. Mak

Management Faculty Research

There is currently a controversy in this country about college students’ perceived sexual knowledge and attitude. The purpose of the study was to identify and examine: 1) students' sexual knowledge, sexual attitude, and students' main source of sexual knowledge; 2) the differences between sociodemographic variables of gender, age, and self-perceived sexual knowledge in relation to sexual knowledge and sexual attitude; and 3) the relationship between sexual knowledge and sexual attitude. Participants were college students (n=201) of a Mid-Atlantic university. The students achieved an average score of 83% on the sexual knowledge test with all (100%) students having either an ambivalent …