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網路使用對於台灣青少年初次戀愛關係與性關係之影響

The Effects Of Internet Use On Adolescents’first Romantic And Sexual Relationships In Taiwan

 Simon Cheng（University of Connecticut） 
Stacy A. Missari （University of Connecticut）
Kuo-hsun Josef Ma （University of Connecticut）
Chin-Chun Yi（Academia Sinica ）

· 2011年台灣青少年成長歷程研究第四次學術研討會  
The 4th Conference on Taiwan Youth Project, 2011, November 25-26, Taipei, Taiwan 

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摘要

何為影響青少年戀愛關係與性行為的決定因素，一向是社會學研究的關鍵議題。隨著青少年網路使用率的提高，及其對於青少年社交行為之重要性，傳統研究因只著重於家庭和學校因素的分析而顯得不足。本文呈現網路使用及網咖造訪對於青少年初次戀愛關係與初次性行為之影響之量化分析結果，所使用的縱向資料於2000到2009年間收集完成，樣本為五千多名中學生，並持續追蹤其動向直至其二十多歲。存活分析的結果顯示，當樣本年齡落在青春期區間，網路使用及網咖造訪使得初次戀愛關係、初次性行為、家庭聯繫、家長監督及其他一般的社會人口、教育控制變項的風險提高；其中，使用網咖的青少女比起未使用網咖的青少女及所有青少男有著更高的風險。而多項對數迴歸分析則進一步顯示網路使用及網咖造訪使得青少年在進入初次戀愛關係之前先進行初次性行為的可能性增高。上述成果為諸多新媒體對於青少年發展的影響研究，特別是在其戀愛關係及性行為方面的影響研究，又增添一筆新例。

ABSTRACT

The determinants of adolescent romantic relationships and sexual behavior have always been a central topic in social science research. However, due to the pervasiveness of internet use among youth and its central importance to their social behaviors, analyses that examine only traditional determinants, such as family and academic characteristics, are no longer satisfactory. In this study, we present a quantitative analysis of the influences of internet use and internet café visits on the timing of adolescents’ first romantic relationship and first sexual intercourse using longitudinal data from Taiwan that followed more than 5,000 adolescents from junior high school to their early twenties from 2000 to 2009. Survival analyses clearly indicate that, in any given age in adolescence, internet use and internet café visits both increase the hazard of first romantic relationship and first sexual intercourse, net of family bonds, parental supervision, and other commonly-controlled sociodemographic and educational variables. In particular, adolescent girls who visit internet cafés are more vulnerable than their female counterparts who do not visit internet cafés and than boys in general. Multinomial logit analyses further show that internet use and internet café visits increase the likelihood of having sexual intercourse before first romantic relationship. These results add to the growing literature on the influence of new media on adolescent development, and specifically, romantic and sexual behavior.

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