Publications

Publication details [#53831]

Fishbein, Martin, Peter Busse, Amy Bleakley and Michael Hennessy. 2010. The Role of Communication With Friends in Sexual Initiation. Communication Research 17 (2) : 239–255.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | peer group | sex | social relationship

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

The overall findings of this study suggest how communication with friends about sex affects adolescents’ intentions to engage in sexual intercourse, which in turn affects subsequent sexual initiation.