Perception of Adolescents on Sexual Education Based on Interpersonal Communication with Their Parents

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors
nika khosravi 1
sarvenaz torbati 2
somayeh tajik esmaili 3
1 Department of Communication, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Communication University, East Tehran Branch, Eslamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 assistant professor. department of social communication. university east tehran branch eslamic azad university.tehran.iran
10.22034/jcsc.2022.548472.2559
Abstract
In Iran, communication studies are media-driven, which has led to a lack of attention to interpersonal communication and a vacuum in this field. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interpersonal relationship between parents as the first social institution and adolescent girls and boys in the field of sex education. After studying 30 years of research on parent-adolescent relationships in the field of sexual issues, it can be found that these relationships have many problems and the most important reason is ignorance or social and cultural issues. Hence, adolescents tend to use other methods of gaining awareness as a source of sexual awareness.
The study method is a qualitative method through in-depth and open interviews to examine the weakness of interpersonal relationships between parents and adolescents and provide a model to solve it. The obtained results are classified into three categories: family, educational and social. Finally, according to the results, one of the main reasons affecting sexual education in this study is the awareness of families, especially parents.

Keywords

Cultural Studies & Communication

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 12 September 2022