THE ADOLESCENCE – PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND IDENTITY AND THE INTRAFAMILIAL ABUSE
ABSTRACT:
This article presents the results of a questionnaire application in adolescents, 14 and 16 years old. This questionnaire has been applied to 143 adolescents and tried to evaluate different types of intrafamilial abuse, to make a psycho-social profile of these youngsters’ families, but also aspects concerning sexual identity, acknowledgements about sexual assaults and information about deviant sexual behavior.
The first part of the questionnaire refers to the intrafamilial atmosphere and intrafamilial abuses- physical, psychological and sexual. The second part concerns aspects of sexual identity of these adolescents, their information about people who suffered sexual abuse, their attitude in these cases and also their information about different types of deviant sexual behavior.
The conclusions show that the adolescents perceive a rigid and conflictual family, with physical and psychological abuse. The media offers to these children many information about sexuality, about sexual activity, with or without consents, but the information are not every time the really ones.