Levels of Awareness of Sex Education Among School Going Adolescents in Urban Areas

Authors: Jaanvi Sharma

Pages: 23-27

Abstract:

It is during the adolescent period an individual experiences developmental changes in their physiology as well as psychology,when it comes to sexual development. It is a point in their life where they can find all these changes to be overwhelming andsometimes may even be confused about their identities. Sex education is a program which primarily focuses on building a strongbase regarding sexual health and learning the information about one’s own and other’s beliefs about their identity, their attituderegarding sex, relationships and most importantly intimacy.The present study aims to study the levels of awareness about sex in the school going adolescents of urban areas (Delhi). Asample of 114 (65 males ; 49 females) aged between 15-18 years was taken from Delhi NCR region for the study. It washypothesised that there would be a significant difference in the levels of sexual awareness , sexual knowledge , sexualintelligence , and knowledge about risky sexual behaviour among adolescents. The tool used was the Social Sexual Awarenessscale by David F. Bogacki , Deborah J. Armstrong and Kenneth J. Weiss. Results showed that there was a significant differencein the levels of awareness , sexual knowledge , sexual intelligence and knowledge about risky sexual behaviour among the schoolgoing adolescents. Girls scored better as compared to the boys.