Table 4.
Attitudes of respondents to mass media/the Internet (n=400)
| Variables | Strongly agree n (%) |
Agree n (%) |
Undecided n (%) |
Disagree n (%) |
Strongly disagree n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premarital sex is acceptable to me | 27 (6.8) | 69 (17.3) | 75 (18.8) | 72 (18.0) | 157 (39.3) |
| Accessing the Internet for sexual material or movies is acceptable to me | 27 (6.8) | 74 (18.5) | 52 (13.0) | 84 (21.0) | 163 (40.7) |
| The Internet has a bad influence on youths’ sexual behavior | 152 (38.0) | 142 (35.5) | 48 (12.0) | 36 (9.0) | 22 (5.5) |
| Frequent exposure to mass media is likely to promote sexual permissiveness among youth | 120 (30.0) | 56 (14.0) | 44 (11.0) | 31 (7.7) | 149 (37.3) |
| Protected sex (use of condoms) could be encouraged among youth through mass media | 163 (40.8) | 143 (35.8) | 49 (12.2) | 29 (7.2) | 16 (4.0) |
| It is the modern time now, and youths could be involved in premarital sex | 97 (24.3) | 180 (45.0) | 36 (9.0) | 41 (10.2) | 46 (11.5) |
Abbreviation: n, number.