PRE-MARITAL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR AMONG INDONESIAN ADOLESCENTS

This research aimed to identify the relationship of perception, information and social environmental factors on the premarital sexual relation attitude and behavior. Perception factors included the perceptions on virginity, marriage, and pregnancy, while information factors consist of discussion concerning reproductive health with family, discussion on reproductive health with peers, knowledge on fertile period, knowledge on HIV/AIDS and mass media exposure on reproductive health. While the social environment factor involve peer social environment, access to reproductive health association, socialization on reproductive health in the community, and reproductive health topics in school. The multivariable analysis results showed that several variables showed consistent influences on sexual attitude and behavior among Indonesian adolescents. The six variables showed direct and indirect relations on the premarital sexual relation behavior with variable attitude on premarital sexual behavior. The variable reproductive health socialization in the community merely provided significant effects to attitude on premarital sexual relations, while knowledge