Do Typology Categories Serve as Markers for Intervention?
Stephen Nagy, PhD, Department of Health Science, University of Alabama, P.O. Box 870311, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, 205-348-8373, snagy@ches.ua.edu and Leslie Clark, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Programs to reduce problems associated with sexual intercourse among adolescents may be fostered by tailoring where sexual status categories may provide markers for intervention. Purposes of this study were: (1) to expand Miller and Clarks sexual behavior typology examining whether delayers and anticipators existed among virgins, single and multiple partner categories; (2) to determine whether the typologies could help to identify characteristics that could assist intervention. A secondary data analysis from the Alabama Adolescent Survey (1998) examined older adolescents (15-17 years of age). Males (N=582) were 80% Caucasian and three-quarters lived with both parents. Females (N=817) were 68% Caucasian and two-thirds lived with two parents. Membership in typology categories were:(F/M De
