The Relationship Between Self Esteem and Sexual Intercourse in Secondary School Students
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Objective: To study the relationship between self esteem and sexual intercourse in secondary school students.
Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The grade 9 students from Nawaminthrachinutit Satriwittaya Phutthamonthon school were recruited in this study. After being allowed by their parents to participated in the study, all participants completed the questionnaire asking about general information and history of sexual intercourse experiences. The student's self-esteem was assessed with the Thai versions of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Pearson's Chi-square, Fisher's exact test and multiple logistic regression were used to analyze the relationship between self esteem and sexual intercourse.
Results: A total of 379 students completed the questionnaire. There were 26 students (6.8%) who has history of sexual intercourse. Factors which correlated significantly with past experience of sexual intercouses, by using Chi-square test, were male gender (P = 0.017), GPA lower than 2 (P = 0.001), living with only mother or father (P = 0.035) and divorced of parents or father/mother have passed away already (P = 0.045). However, after further assessment with multiple logistic regression, there was only one factor that related with history of sexual intercourse in students which was GPA lower than 2.
Conclusion: Self-esteem was not associated with history of sexual intercourse but a lower GPA was associated with history of sexual intercourse among secondary school students.
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