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作者

William H. Jeynes

来源

EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY,Vol.0/0,Issue.

语言

英文

关键字

urban education, school reform, school improvement, educational policy, educational reform

作者单位

1California State University Long Beach, USA;2The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA

摘要

This meta-analysis of 14 studies examines the relationship between abstinence-only programs and the sexual behavior and—attitudes of urban students from middle school to early in college. The results indicate a significant relationship between abstinence-only programs and the outcomes examined. Abstinence-only programs, as a whole, were associated with reduced premarital sexual behavior by nearly .4 of a standard deviation unit. For sexual behavior and attitudes combined, abstinence-only programs were associated with improvements of nearly .3 of a standard deviation unit. When sophisticated controls were utilized in each of these analyses, the effect sizes were smaller, but were all statistically significant. The importance of these results is discussed.