Paauglių lytinės elgsenos ir psichoemocinės būsenos sąsaja
The relationship between adolescents’ sexual behaviour and their psycho emotional state

Summary/Abstract: Recently, sexual behavior of adolescents and related problems has become the scope of numerous cases of scientific research carried out in Lithuania. They reflect developmental trends of adolescent sexual relationships. The issue of adolescent sexual experience is becoming increasingly acute due to the increasing number of sexually active adolescents and due to constantly decreasing age periods of adolescents having sexual experience. Early sexual experience is related with different health problems (adolescent pregnancy, sexually transferred infections, drug abuse and psychical health problems). A frequent outcome of early sexual relations is juvenile pregnancy of girls. The object of the research is sexual behavior of 11–12th form school learners. The aim of the present article is to disclose interrelationships among adolescent sexual behavior, psychoemotional states and risk behavior. The objectives of the research: 1. To distinguish trends of the spreading of adolescent sexual relations in age and gender groups. 2. To disclose interrelations between adolescent psychoemotional states and early sexual experiences. Research sample characteristics and methods applied. The research involved 11 – 12th form school learners from general education schools located in regions of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys, Alytus, Marijampolė, Utena, Tauragė and Telšiai. The main method applied during the research was anonymous questionnaire-based surveying. 1035 school learners aged 16 – 19 (including 385 boys and 650 girls) took part in the research. Peculiarities of 11–12th form school learner sexual behavior. The research authors had a goal to disclose spreading of 11 – 12th form school learner sexual relations in different age and gender groups on the basis of the criterion of presence or absence of sexual relations and their dependency on the age group. It was distinguished that over one third of the research participants (36.1 per cent) have had sexual relations. The percentage of both boys and girls having had sexual relations increases simultaneously with their age. The percentage of seventeenyear- olds having had sexual experience is approximately one fourth (25.5 per cent); meanwhile, this number is equal to 39.7 per cent among eighteen-year-olds and more than half (55.6 per cent) among nineteen-year-olds (p<0.0001). When calculating the said results according to gender groups, it becomes clear that almost half (47.3 per cent) of all the boys participating in the research have had sexual relations; meanwhile, this number equals to almost one third (29.5 per cent) among girls. The percentage of sexually experienced boys is often 1.5 times higher than that of girls (p<0.0001). To have a deeper insight into peculiarities of adolescent sexual behaviour, the following question was included in the questionnaire: “Do you live a sexual life at present?” Almost one third (30.6 per cent) of boys and nearly one fifth of girls (19.2 per cen

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