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ABSTRACT
Objectives and Methods: Structural equation modeling was used to examine a model of factors related to the level of involvement of Chinese parents in sexuality education for adolescents. Results: Greater parental education was indirectly related to parental engagement in sexuality education through its relationship with more traditional cultural values, greater perceived knowledge of sexuality, and increased quality of the parent-child relationship. The model was found to be largely consistent regardless of the gender of the parent or child and the residence of the family. Conclusions: Results demonstrate that there are multiple pathways to consider within the topic of Chinese parental involvement in sexuality education.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank the parent participants who completed the questionnaires and the teachers who helped to collect the questionnaires.
Notes
1 Analyses comparing the participants recruited from the two cities revealed a number of significant differences. A MANOVA with city as the fixed factor found that parents in Guangzhou are older than parents in Hangzhou (44.85 vs. 43.89 years, F = 9.903, p < .01), they have lower education levels (3.27 vs. 4.47, F = 96.182, p < .01), have older children (17.67 vs. 16.86 years, F = 106.437, p < .01), have more children in the family (2.65 vs. 1.11, F = 867.975, p < .01), and have higher incomes (3,934.15 vs. 3,007.81, F = 5.781, p < .05). Chi-square analyses revealed that the Guangzhou sample had a higher proportion of father participants (χ2 = 9.904, df = 1, p < .01), a greater proportion of male children in the sample (χ2 = 16.496, df = 1, p < .01), had a higher proportion of rural participants (χ2 = 252.047, df = 1, p < .01), and a higher proportion of Buddhist participants (χ2 = 11.709, df = 2, p < .01) compared to the Hangzhou.