Adolescence and Sexual Attitudes

The purpose of this study was to compare the sexual attitudes of male adolescents in contemporary Hong Kong with those of female adolescents in the Special Administrative District. One research question was investigated and four hypotheses were tested. The data required to test the hypotheses were collected from a sample of the population of the adolescent residents of Hong Kong. Adolescent was defined for the purposes of this study as ages 14 through 18.

The research question ["Do the sexual attitudes of adolescents in Hong Kong vary according to gender"] was answered affirmatively in a nominal context, as female adolescents among the research sample were uniformly more conservative and traditional on average in their attitudes toward sexual behavior than were the male adolescents. When the data were tested for the statistical significance of the response variations, however, the only statistically significant variation between female and male adolescents involved their perceptions of the risk of pregnancy arising from participation in unprotected sex. Thus, one conclusion that is drawn from the findings of the research performed for this study was that sexual attitudes among adolescents in Hong Kong do not vary according to gender to a statistically significant extent.

A second important finding of this research, however, was that, on average, both female and male adolescents in H

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onist model and the organismic. The organismic model posits that "social influences enter in only to elicit feeling, and to regulate expression" (Hochschild, 1990, p. 119). The interactionist model builds on the base of the organismic model to posit that social factors "enter not simply before and after but interactively during the experience of emotion" (Hochschild, 1990, p. 119). Thus, the interactionist model recognizes more "points of social entry" than are recognized by the organismic model (Hochschild, 1990, p. 119). According to the interactionist model, other social factors help to shape feeling as feeling is being experienced by a person (Gordon, 1985). As emotions are conceived in the interactionist model, social forces provide shape to biological sensations, thereby creating "a strip of experience with a name, a history, a meaning, and a consequence of a certain sort" (Hochschild, 1990, p. 120). The social constructionist model of emotions posits that biological sensations have no causative role in the creation of emotions. Feeling, according to the social constructionist model of emotions, "is entirely constituted by social influences" (Hochschild, 1990, p. 120). The organismic model and the social constructi
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