The primary purpose of this research was to determine the relationship of sexual knowledge to sexual permissiveness. Secondarily, the purpose was to see how variables such as race, sex, age, and measures of religiosity related to sexual knowledge, sexual permissiveness, and sexual standards. / Data was collected from 142 students in grades 9-12 and 134 useable questionnaires resulted. The population included 72 males and 62 females. There were 18 blacks, 113 whites, 2 others, and 1 undesignated questionnaire. There were 33 9th-graders, 41 10th-graders, 28 11th-graders, and 32 12th-graders. / Data was collected by means of an anonymous three-part questionnaire: first, demographic data was collected on a Student Information Sheet designed by the researcher; second, sexual permissiveness was measured using Reiss' Scales for Premarital Sexual Permissiveness; and third, 14 questions abstracted from McHugh's Sex Knowledge Inventory--Form X (1979) were used to evaluate sexual knowledge. / Statistical treatment included the use of chi-square and gamma. Chi-square was used to test for the independence of various factors, while gamma indicated the strength of the relationship. When the hypotheses were analyzed in terms of the data collected, the following conclusions were generated: (1) An inverse relationship significant at the .05 level was found to exist between sexual knowledge and sexual permissiveness. (2) Sexual knowledge was significantly related to both racial and sexual variables at the .01 level. (3) Sexual permissiveness was found to be related significantly to the variable of sex at the .001 level; it was also related significantly to measures of religiosity which included self-rated devoutness, significant at the .01 level, and church attendance, significant at the .05 level. (4) General sexual permissiveness standard was related only to the variable of sex at the .01 level. / When the variables of sex, race, age, and measures of religiosity were examined by sexual knowledge, sexual permissiveness, and sexual standards, the strength of the variables becomes visible. Sex was the only variable that related significantly to sexual knowledge, permissiveness, and standards. Race was significantly related to sexual knowledge but did not relate significantly to sexual permissiveness or standards. Age groupings or grade levels were not significantly related to sexual knowledge, permissiveness, or standards. Regarding measures of religiosity, both church attendance and devoutness related significantly to sexual permissiveness. While neither related significantly to sexual standards, a moderately strong relationship was generated. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-03, Section: A, page: 0954. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74125 |
| Contributors | REVELL, MELINDA PRYOR., The Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 198 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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