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American Indian Female Adolescents' Sexual Behavior: A Test of the Life-Course Experience Theory

University of Georgia

James J. Ponzetti, Jr.

Western Illinois University

The life-course experience theory was used to explain variation in age at first coitus andfirst pregnancy among a nationally representative sample of American Indian female adolescents. Results revealed that the greatest predictors of age atfirst coitus and age atfirst pregnancy were personal life experience variables, followed byfamily-level variables. Consideration was given to comparing the experiences of American Indianfemale adolescents with those emergingfrom other life-course experience studies on non-European-American adolescents. Implicationsfor prevention and educational programming, as well as suggestionsforfuture research, were offered.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 75-95 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X970261004


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