Attitude Towards Sex Education and Sex Myths among Adolescents Suresh Sankapal

Abstract

The primary aim was to study the attitude towards sex education and sex myths among adolescents. Adolescent phase is a crucial phase that brings in a lot of challenges for them. Two schools were selected and a sample of 150 students participated in this study. Age group taken for study was between 14 to 18 years (9th, 10th ,11th,12th Std) male and female students. They were asked to fill a questionnaire about attitude towards sex education prepared by Mishra (2008), and Sex Myths Checklist developed by Kumar (1993). Statistical techniques such as means, standard deviation, Pearson’s’ ‘r’ and ‘t’ test were used for the analysis of collected data. The correlation (-0.11) between attitude towards sex education and sex myth scores among female adolescent, which is not significant at 0.05 level but a correlation (-0.42) between attitude towards sex education and sex myth scores among male adolescent, which is significant at 0.01 level. The student ‘t’ test (0.93) was calculated on the bases on mean and SD scores related to attitudes towards sex education of 150 adolescents, which is not significant. The Sex Myth check list of 150 adolescents’ student ‘t’ test (2.89) is significant at 0.01 level.