The role of self-esteem, self-control, parental support, and peer influence in sexual assertiveness among female adolescents
), Lutfi Agus Salim(2), Nurul Hartini(3), Esty Puji Rahayu(4),
(1) Doctoral Program of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
(2) Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Population Studies and Health Promotion, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
(3) Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
(4) Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya, 60237 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
Corresponding Author
Abstract
References
Nikolaiev L, Herasina S, Hrechanovska O, Vlasenko O,
Skliarenko S and Hrande K. The Development of
Assertiveness of the Individual as a Subject of
Communication. Revista Romaneasca Pentru
Educatie Multidimensionala. 2023;15(2):210-28.
Al Mutoharoh A, Djamal NN and Tahrir T. Premarital Sexual
Behavior, Sexual Assertiveness, and Sex Guilt Among
College Students. Psympathic: Jurnal Ilmiah
Psikologi. 2023;10(2):171-6.
Auslander BA, Perfect MM, Succop PA and Rosenthal SL.
Perceptions of sexual assertiveness among adolescent
girls: initiation, refusal, and use of protective
behaviors. Journal of pediatric and adolescent
gynecology.
;20(3):157
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2007.03.093.
Govender D, Naidoo S and Taylor M. “My Partner was not
Fond of Using Condoms And I Was Not On
Contraception”: Understanding Adolescent Mothers’
Perspectives Of Sexual Risk Behaviour In Kwazulu
Natal,
South Africa. BMC Public Health.
;20(1):366.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci101104
1186/s12889-020-08474-2.
Indonesia S. Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey
(SDKI) 2012. BPS, BKKBN, Kemenkes, and ICF
International Jakarta. 2013.
Bahriyah F and Satriyandari Y. The Role of Peers on
Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Indonesia. Pak J Med
Health Sci. 2021;15:563-6.
Muthmainnah M, Devi YP, Khoiriyah IE, Nadia A, Putri AF
and Tristanti KK. Determinants of Adolescent Sexual
Behaviour in Indonesia during the COVID-19
Pandemic: A Scoping Review. Nigerian Postgraduate
Medical
Journal.
;30(2):87
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.4103/n
pmj.npmj_65_23.
Morokoff PJ, Quina K, Harlow LL, Whitmire L, Grimley DM,
Gibson PR and Burkholder GJ. Sexual Assertiveness
Scale (SAS) for women: development and validation.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
;73(4):790.
Van Lankveld JJDM, Dewitte M, Verboon P and van Hooren
SAH.
Associations
of
Intimacy,
Partner
Responsiveness, and Attachment-Related Emotional
Needs With Sexual Desire. Frontiers in Psychology.
;12.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.3
/fpsyg.2021.665967.
Widman L, Golin CE, Kamke K, Burnette JL and Prinstein
MJ. Sexual Assertiveness Skills and Sexual Decision
Making in Adolescent Girls: Randomized Controlled
Trial of an Online Program. American journal of
public
health.
;108(1):96
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.2105/
ajph.2017.304106.
Rickert VI, Sanghvi R and Wiemann CM. Is lack of sexual
assertiveness among adolescent and young adult
women a cause for concern? Perspectives on sexual
and reproductive health. 2002;34(4):178-83.
Hurlbert DF. The Role of Assertiveness in Female Sexuality:
A Comparative Study between Sexually Assertive and
Sexually Nonassertive Women. Journal of sex &
marital
therapy.
;17(3):183
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.1080/0
Kim YH, Moon ST and Kang HS. Factors Influencing on
Sexual Assertiveness of College Students. Korean
journal of women health nursing. 2013;19(3):166
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.4069/kj
whn.2013.19.3.166.
Kenari E and Hamzehpoor Haghighi T. Prediction of Sexual
Assertiveness Based on Childhood Trauma with the
Mediation of Sexual Self-Esteem in Married Woman
in Anzali City. Journal of Health Promotion
Management. 2025;14(1):1-13.
Mastro S and Zimmer-Gembeck MJ. Let’s talk openly about
sex: Sexual communication, self-esteem and efficacy
as correlates of sexual well-being.
Romantic
relationships and sexuality in adolescence and young
adulthood. UK: Routledge; 2018. p. 95-114.
López Alvarado SL, Van Parys H, Jerves Hermida EM and
Enzlin P. Development of sexual assertiveness and its
function for human sexuality: a literature review.
Lammers J and Stoker JI. Power Affects Sexual
Assertiveness and Sexual Esteem Equally in Women
and Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
;48(2):645-52.
Dai F, Fongkaew W, Lirtmunlikaporn S, Viseskul N and
Chaloumsuk N. Predictors of The Sexual
Assertiveness among Chinese Female College
Students: A Cross-Sectional Study. Pacific Rim
International Journal of Nursing Research.
;25(4):626-38.
Shongwe MC, Chung M-H, Chien L-Y and Chang P-C. Does
Parenting Style Moderate The Relationship between
Parent-Youth Sexual Risk Communication and
Premarital Sexual Debut Among in-School Youth in
Eswatini? PLoS One. 2021;16(1):e0245590.
Couture S, Fernet M, Hébert M, Guyon R, Lévesque S and
Paradis A. “I Just Want to Feel Good Without Making
You Feel Bad”: Sexual Assertiveness Negotiation in
Adolescent Romantic Relationships. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2023;52(7):3063-79.
Ahn J and Yang Y. Relationship Between Self-Esteem and
Risky Sexual Behavior among Adolescents and Young
Adults: A Systematic Review. American Journal of
Sexuality
Education.
;18(3):484
https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2022.2118199.
Martínez-Casanova E, Molero-Jurado MdM and Pérez
Fuentes MdC. Self-Esteem and Risk Behaviours in
Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Behavioral
Sciences. 2024;14(6):432.
Thien AD, Littik S and Wijaya RPC. Self-Control and Risky
Sexual Behavior Teenager. Journal of Health and
Behavioral Science. 2023;5(1):159-71.
de Graaf H, Vanwesenbeeck I, Woertman L, Keijsers L,
Meijer S and Meeus W. Parental support and
knowledge and adolescents’ sexual health: Testing
two mediational models in a national Dutch sample.
Journal of youth and adolescence. 2010;39:189-98.
Mansata V and Jamal G. Sexual Awareness, Assertiveness,
and Attitudes of Indian Young Adults: Family
Structure and Parents. IOSR-JHSS; 2022.
Eyiah-Bediako S, Quansah F, Omotosho JA and Hagan JE.
Assessment of Peer Pressure and Sexual Adventurism
among Adolescents in Ghana: The Moderating Role
of Child-Rearing Practices. Social Sciences.
;10(11):418.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10110
Rosenberg M. Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Journal of
Religion and Health. 1965.
Ferrari JR, Stevens EB and Jason LA. The role of self
regulation in abstinence maintenance: Effects of
communal living on self-regulation. Journal of
Groups in Addiction & Recovery. 2009;4(1-2):32-41.
Loshek E and Terrell HK. The development of the Sexual
Assertiveness
Questionnaire
(SAQ):
A
comprehensive measure of sexual assertiveness for
women. The Journal of Sex Research.
;52(9):1017-27.
Barzoki MH, Kiviruusu O and Skogberg N. Self-esteem at
the intersection of sex, SES, and immigrant origin.
Current
Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07476-w.
de Graaf H, Vanwesenbeeck I, Woertman L and Meeus W.
Parenting and adolescents’ sexual development in
western societies: A literature review. European
Psychologist.
;16(1):21
https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1027/1016
/a000031.
Tegegne WA. Self-esteem, peer pressure, and demographic
predictors of attitude toward premarital sexual
practice among first-year students of Woldia
University:
Implications
intervention.
Front
for
psychosocial
Psychol.
;13:923639.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10110
3389/fpsyg.2022.923639.
Moyano N, Granados R, Durán CA and Galarza C. Self
Esteem, Attitudes toward Love, and Sexual
Assertiveness
among Pregnant Adolescents.
International journal of environmental research and
public
health.
;18(3).https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci101104181
3390/ijerph18031270.
Magnusson BM, Crandall A and Evans K. Early sexual debut
and risky sex in young adults: the role of low self
control. BMC Public Health.
;19(1):1483.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10110
1186/s12889-019-7734-9.
Quinn PD and Fromme K. Self-regulation as a protective
factor against risky drinking and sexual behavior.
Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the
Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors.
;24(3):376
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.1037/a
Rodríguez-Nieto G, Dewitte M, Sack AT and Schuhmann T.
Individual Differences in Testosterone and Self
Control Predict Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Proneness in Young Males. Frontiers in Psychology.
;12.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.3
/fpsyg.2021.723449.
Donenberg GR, Wilson HW, Emerson E and Bryant FB.
Holding the line with a watchful eye: parental
monitoring and parental permissiveness and risky
sexual behavior among adolescents in psychiatric
care. AIDS Education and Prevention. 2002;14(2).
Santa Maria D, Markham C, Bluethmann S and Mullen PD.
Parent-based adolescent sexual health interventions
and effect on communication outcomes: a systematic
review and meta-analyses. Perspectives on sexual and
reproductive health.
;47(1):3750.https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1011041810.1363/4
e2415.
Mashia EO, van Wyk NC and Leech R. Support of
adolescents to resist peer pressure and coercion to
sexual activity. International nursing review.
;66(3):416-24.https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12512.
Article Metrics
Abstract View
: 734 times
Download : 329 times
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
