SEKSUALNO DEVIJANTNO PONAŠANJE KOD ADOLESCENATA
SEXUAL DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Summary/Abstract: During adolescence, an individual's image of his own body undergoes significant changes, and physical appearance becomes one of the foundations on which identity is built. On the other hand, sexuality is a fundamental component of human personality, but when talking about adolescent sexuality, it is very often talked about through the lens of risk and promiscuity. During the period of adolescence, young people encounter numerous physical and psychosocial changes. It is precisely these changes that affect forming of the adolescent's sexual identity, which additionally shapes with regard to individual and environmental factors. It is known that young people are often inclined in various risky behaviors, they like to experiment, they want to test their maturity and autonomy. Precisely because of all the above, we arrive to the main goal of this work, which is to highlight and define characteristics of risky sexual behavior in adolescents, which we call sexually deviant behaviors, as well as to emphasize the causes and influences that lead to sexually deviant behaviors in adolescents. In this work, we will emphasize primarily the increase in the risk of occurrence and frequency deviant behaviors in adolescents and their positive correlation primarily with the structure and the dynamics of family relationships, and then we will look at the individual characteristics of adolescents, social support and position in the peer group, proximal and wider environmental factors. It is emphasized the importance of preventing sexual deviant behavior among young people due to the importance of forming an adequate psychosocial profile of a mature adult that today's adolescent will become in the future.

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