Doctoral candidate Linghua Jiang recently had a paper accepted to Journal of Research on Adolescence, which focuses on how the associations between parental closeness and sexual behavior change over the course of adolescence and young adulthood. The paper applied the time-varying effect model (TVEM) to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to understand how both mothers and fathers may differentially influence their child’s sexual behaviors at different ages. In addition, she examined sexual-esteem as an age-varying mediator of these associations. Lab members Xiafei Wang, Shuangyue Cui (now a doctoral student at the University of Georgia) and Sara Vasilenko were coauthors.
Read the paper here.
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