FOREIGN

1. Students’ Perception Towards Premarital Sex

 Aims: This study examined the insights of the college students on premarital sex.
The source or from whom the respondents’ obtain much of their information
about sex was also investigated.

 Methods: The descriptive survey design was utilized. The survey questionnaires
were administered to the 120 students. The frequency and percentile distribution
was used to interpret the gathered data.

 Results: The results revealed that the males expressed their perception as slightly
conservative towards premarital sex, while females conveyed their opinion of
conservativeness. Consequently, in this permissive point in time though the
respondents are at their late adolescence stage, they did not absolutely submit to
the liberal view of premarital sex. To some extent quite a lot of the respondents
did not agree to pr-marital sex. The inherited values of conservativeness are still
present in the minds of the young respondents. In addition, the source of
respondents’ information about sex also vary; males articulated that they got
much of the information from mass media while the females rated the school
significantly as the source of information about sex.

Anna Bocar
Noeme C. Perez
November 2013
SSRN Electronic Journal
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2440761
Conference: Asian Conference on Multidisciplinary Research on Higher Education
(ACMRHE 2013) At: Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines
Volume: ISSN 2094-9529
Bocar, A. and Perez, N., 2013. ResearchGate.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265640705_Students'_Perception_Tow
ards_Premarital_Sex

2. Young People’s Perceptions about Premarital Sex, Perceived Parent Values

about Sex and Premarital Sexual Behaviour in Ghana

 Aims: This study therefore focuses not only on young peoples’ perception about
sex but what they think their parents’ perceptions about sex are and explores
other family context variables in two urban communities in Ghana.

 Methods: 1030 unmarried adolescents between the ages of 13 to 25 are examined.

To examine young peoples’ perception about premarital sex, four items were put
together with a Cronbach’s alpha (α) of 0.88 (eg: It is alright for people to have
sex before marriage if they are in love.). Their perceptions about what adults in
their family think about young people engaging in sex were also explored. Nine
items are studied (α=0.81) (eg: Adults in your family would disapprove of you
 having sex.). Responses given were: ‘Very true’ ‘Somewhat true’ and ‘Not at all
true’. Some items were reverse coded and factor analysis was used to create three
categories of first, young persons’ perception about premarital sex and the second
being their perceived parent perception about sex. The three categories are ‘1’
Unfavourable, ‘2’ Neutral and ‘3’ Favourable perceptions about sex. Other
predictor variables explored are gender, age, years of schooling, locality, alcohol
consumption and religiosity. In addition to these, other family related variables
like relationship quality with adult in the family, financial support, household
wealth and living arrangement are examined. Premarital sex, the outcome
variable is measured as dichotomous with 0 indicating “NO” and 1 “Yes”. Binary
logit regressions are used to examine the relationship between youth perception
about premarital sex and their perceived parent perception and sexual initiation.

 Results: Preliminary results indicate that the mean age of young people in our
sample is 18.20years. Nearly three out of every five young people in our sample
have engaged in premarital sex. There are more females (51.93%) than males
with the mean years of schooling of all young people being 7.36 years. About
58.56 percent of young people held unfavourable attitudes towards premarital sex
whiles a little over one third (32.88%) of adolescents held favourable attitudes
about premarital sex. However, with perceived parent perception about sex,
13.50% held unfavourable attitudes about sex but more than half (54.85%) held
neutral attitudes about perceived parent perception about sex. With the same
proportions of young people who held favourable perceptions about premarital
sex also holding similar perceived parent perceptions about sex.

Charlotte Ofori and Francis N.A. Dodoo1, 2016. Regional Institute for Population
Studies, University of Ghana 2 The Pennsylvania State University
file:///C:/Users/acer/Downloads/PAA%202016-Ofori%20and%20Dodoo.pdf

3. The Perception of Premarital Sex Among Students in a Religious Moral Based

University

 Aims: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between
religious moraldevelopment on perception of premarital sex among students in a
religious based universityin Thailand, and to also explore the factors that shape
students‟ perceptions of premarital sex.

 Methods: The research design of this study was quantitative, non-experimental

and descriptive, usingthe survey method of data collection. Permission was
granted from the university researchcommittee for distribution of the survey
through the university intranet, and the data wasanalyzed using Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The total number ofparticipants was 103
undergraduate students from the international programme.

 Results: The findings of the study suggest that most university students are
against sex beforemarriage. Moral development activities taught them not to have
 premarital sex. Participantsresponses showed that the factor that most impacted
perceptions of premarital sex was theinternet. The findings also suggested that
movie/television viewing, is an important factorthat shapes perceptions of
premarital sex. The result show that moral development activitiesand perceptions
of premarital sex are related, however it was a weak correlation (r=.03).Moral
development activities may have a small influence on students‟ perceptions
ofpremarital sex.There is a need for improvement of moral development activities
such as the implementationof more discussions on premarital sex to help students
understand the value of sex. Futureresearch in this area could use qualitative
approaches to examine the factors that impactperceptions of premarital sex, and
regression analysis to investigate the influence of moraldevelopment on
perceptions of premarital sex.

Amanda Simon, 2019. International Scholar’s Conference Proceeding.

https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1004

4. Premarital sexual relationships: Explanation of the actions and functions of

family
Aims: This study was aimed at explaining the actions and functions of families in
youths’ engagement in sexual relations.
Methods: Twenty-six single males and females of 18-24 years who were living in
Isfahan participated in this qualitative research study. The participants had begun to
have some form of sexual activities. Twelve other participants including parents,
teachers, school counselors, clinical psychologists, family counselors, and health care
providers also took part in the study. Data collection method was based on semi-
structured interview and observing the sexual actions and interactions of youths at
different levels. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used constant comparison
analysis of investigation.
Results: The results showed that five main concepts are involved in the formation of
sexual relations before marriage, including “parents’ child-rearing practices”,
“parents’ interactions”, “children's economic support”, “religious beliefs,” and
“sexual awareness”. Based on the prominent role of the family in shaping sexual
relations before marriage, it is necessary to educate and support families and also
revise the neglected aspects.
Mahnaz Noroozi,1 Fariba Taleghani,2 Effat Sadat Merghati-khoei,3 Mahgol
Tavakoli,4 and Ali Gholami, 2014. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
Research.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145500/
LOCAL
1 PREMARITAL SEX: PERCEPTION, ENGAGEMENT AND AWARENESS
OF COLLEGE STUDENTS IN BULAN, SORSOGON, PHILIPPINES

Aims: This study determined the perception of college students towards premarital
sex (PMS) amid the continuum of sexual conservatism and liberalism. It also
investigated on the engagement and extent of awareness of the students to the various
consequences of engaging in PMS.

Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study was participated by 320 respondents

chosen through cluster random sampling form the different colleges in the town.

Results: Results revealed that students continue to hold a conservative view of PMS.
However, degree of conservatism has diminished. Immorality and social
unacceptability of PMS were slightly agreed on; although virginity and sanctity of sex
were concepts respondents hold a tight view on. PMS is permissible if done by
engaged couples and loving partners. One out of five respondents engaged in PMS
which is relatively low compared to the regional and national data. Respondents’
awareness of the various consequences of PMS was fairly low with a mean of 1.6
responses, and the most common were, unwanted pregnancy, sexually-transmitted
disease, can affect schooling and social stigma. This study recommends PMS
education and the integration of these results in the content of instruction, focusing on
health-related effects of PMS.

Graham M. Naz, 2019. Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary.

http://www.ajms.co.in/sites/ajms2015/index.php/ajms/article/view/3420

2. Perception on Premarital Sex as Correlate to Adolescents’ Concept of

Marriage

Aims: The primary objective of this study is to determine if perception on premarital

sex is correlated with adolescents’ concept of marriage. It also aimed to find out
opinion of young individuals on reasons adolescents engage in premarital sex and
cohabitation.

Methods: A survey instrument designed specifically for this study was administered
to randomly selected students of one institution in Metro Manila enrolled in the
Summer of School Year 2008-2009.

Results: Student t-test and Oneway ANOVA revealed significant differences on the
perception on premarital sex and cohabitation when grouped according to
demographic variables while Chi-square test for dependence showed concept of
marriage was correlated with attitude on premarital sex but not with cohabitation.

Golda Aira V. Crisostomo | Ronel O. Jimenez, 2009. Philippine E-Journals.

https://ejournals.ph/article.php?id=6676
Level of perception on premarital sex among
selected BSN level 3 and 4 SPC students.

Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to determine the perception on premarital
sex among selected BSN level 3 and 4 students of San Pedro College School
Year 2007-2008. Specifically, the study aimed to determine the level of
perception on premarital sex, the significant relationship between the level of
perception of students and factors namely, personal belief, frequency of
dating, moral values, family background and relationships and peer pressure,
and the significant difference in the level of perception on premarital sex
between year level and gender.

The study was conducted in San Pedro College, through random selection of
75 students from years 3 and 4, respectively. Selffmade questionnaires, which
consisted of 60 items divided into the 5 abovementioned factors, were used.
The statistical treatments used were arithmetic mean, standard deviation,
Pearson rand T-test. Findings show that there is a high level of perception
among 3rd and 4th year BSN students. Moreover, there is a significant
relationship between the level of perception and all the identified factors
except family background and relations, as computed. Among the identified
factors, peer pressure affects the level of perception on premarital sex the
greatest, followed by personal belief, frequency of dating, moral values and
family background and relationship. There is a significant difference in the
level of perception between males and females and no significant difference
in the level of perception on premarital sex between the selected BSN level 3
and 4 SPC students.

Based on the findings, the study therefore concludes that there is a great
awareness and understanding on premarital sex among BSN students of
SPC. Moreover, male students have greater awareness and understanding
regarding premarital sex. The level of perception among levels 3 and 4 BSN
students are basically the same in all aspects.
http://www.herdin.ph/index.php?view=research&cid=5864