Teen Girls with Poor School Habits More Prone to Risky Sex, Study Finds
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iStock/Thinkstock(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) — Getting through high school relatively unscathed is a goal for a lot of teens but what happens when things don’t go well academically?
According to an Indiana University study, poor performance in the classroom can be linked to risky behavior after school, particularly among girls.
Lead author Devon J. Hensel and his fellow researchers went through 80,00 diary entries of 14-to-17-year-old girls to get a better understanding of how a school performance impacts romantic relationships.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there were more instances of vaginal sex and fewer condom use on days girls skipped school compared to times they showed up.
Meanwhile, although the outcome of a test, whether pass or fail, did not affect the incidence of sex, condom use did drop dramatically when a girl flunked a test as opposed to when she didn’t.
Overall, Hensel says that on days when girls skipped school or failed a test, they were more inclined to want to have sex and express feelings of love than days when they attended class or did not receive a failing grade.
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