Contraceptive Attitudes and Sexual Self-Esteem Among Young Adults: Communication and Quality of Relationships with Mothers.

ABSTRACT.Objectives:This study investigated relations between quality of relationships with mothers and communication with mothers about sex with contraceptive attitudes and sexual self-esteem among emerging adults.Methods:Undergraduate students (N= 176,Mage= 22 years 65% women) completed self-report measures of relationships with mothers, communication about sex, and sexual self-esteem.Results:Results indicated positive relations between quality of relationships with mothers and open, positive sex communication, for men and women, sexually and not sexually active; and between relationship quality with mothers, sex communication with mothers, and sexual self-esteem of women.Conclusions:Warm, supportive relationships with mothers in emerging adulthood include open, comfortable communications about sexuality, which were linked to features of sexual well-being of young adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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