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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2010 Aug 24;48(1):87–93. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.05.004

Table 2.

Longitudinal Changes in Personal, Perceived Peer and Perceived Family Attitudes towards Teen Sex*

Attitude Scale Time (Summary score† ± standard error)
Enrollment Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Personal 0.66 ± 0.01 0.72 ± 0.01 0.75 ± 0.01 0.74 ± 0.02 0.77 ± 0.02
Perceived peer 0.71 ± 0.01 0.73± 0.01 0.73 ± 0.01 0.76 ± 0.01 0.77 ± 0.01
Perceived family 0.60 ± 0.01 0.64 ± 0.01 0.66 ± 0.01 0.65 ± 0.01 0.69 ± 0.02
*

Higher scores indicate greater acceptance of teen sex.

†

Each average scale score is scaled to allow direct comparisons (i.e., divided by the total number of items in the scale).