LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE KNOWLEDGE, SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS OF ADOLESCENTS

STUDI LITERATUR PENGETAHUAN, SIKAP DAN PERILAKU SEKSUAL REMAJA

Abstract

Teenagers or adolescence means growing toward maturity. The maturity in question is social maturity  and  psychology.  Based  on  adolescent  psychosocial  and  sexual  maturity  will  pass several stages. Along with the current information and technology globalization continues to run, there are major changes to the norm of sex, in teenagers. Unhealthy sexual behavior among unmarried adolescents tends to increase. Adolescent knowledge of reproductive health is still very low, where adolescents lack understanding and know the importance of reproductive health that leads to premarital sex. The purpose of this research is to know the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of adolescent sexual. This method of research is a descriptive literature review done with a single purpose of making an overview or description of a circumstance objectively and in the form of numbers. The results of the research of knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviors of various literature reviews are in the category of less as much as 38 people (48.1%), a category of enough 33 people (41.8%)  and  a  good category of 8 people (10.1%). Positive attitudes as much as 69 people (37.5%)  and negative attitudes of 115 people (62.5%). While male-sex respondents had bad sexual behavior 58 (67.3%), female gender 12 (75.0%) Respondents. The conclusion of the literature review of the knowledge of adolescents ' sexual attitudes and behaviors demonstrates the knowledge of teenagers who are still very lacking in sexual. The knowledge that teenagers are less about sexual can lead to negative attitudes or the tendency of teenagers doing sex.  Key  words :  knowledge,  sexual, attitudes,behavior, adolescents.