The purpose of this study was to examine sex information by analyzing the sex consciousness and school sex education of junior high school students. These information will leading to the establishing well organized sex education and to set sex conscio...
The purpose of this study was to examine sex information by analyzing the sex consciousness and school sex education of junior high school students. These information will leading to the establishing well organized sex education and to set sex consciousness and values of middle school students. Randomly, data were collected from 2000 middle school students of Kyeong gi Do which was analysed by sex, the school year, and region. Total 1873 students replied effectively.
Referring to the survey of "The development study of sex consciousness and sex education information on middle school student" by National Youth Commission (2000), I reorganized the survey contents which 65 questions were asked and Cronbach''s α correlation was tested.
To analyse data, the frequency and the percentage was calculated by SPSS Window 10.0, statistical significant was tested differences of the results on the terms of the sex, the school year, and the region using Chi-square(χ2) were extracted. The result was as follows :
1) Middle school students'' sex consciousness and knowledge
(1) In terms of the satisfaction on the self-concept, most students satisfied about their self-concept. Also it was shown the significant difference on the term of sex, which proved the fact that Korean traditional "Boy preference ideology" still remains in Korea society.
(2) Students have low knowledge about sex(57.84%), and that boy students was little higher than girl students. Also, results showed the older students have higher information about sex, which prove sex education of school have effects.
(3) Regarding the homosexuality, most students proved to have negative thoughts. Comparing with boy students, three times of girl students said that homosexuality could be possible if they love each other. Many students have a curiosity about homosexuality which showed that sex education for girl students is necessary.
2) Current sexual behavior and experience of middle school students
(1) Half(48.7%) of students have other sex friends while girl students have more opposite sex friends than boy does. Also 30% of parents accept the opposite sex friends of their kids. The need of good sex education was much urgent because the older students show the disposition of preferring a kiss and a sexual intercourse.
(2) 61.7% of students have the experience to see the pornography, and then boy students would like to do five times more than girl students. These showed a need of sex education to correct the falsehood of the pornography.
(3) 52.4% of boy students and 8.5% of girl students have masturbated. After masturbating, most of students felt better and the other students felt guilty. Comparing to the result of other similar studies, students seem to answer frankly.
(4) In terms of kiss, caress, and sexual intercourse, the older students have much experienced than the younger students. Boy students have two times more experienced on kiss, caress, and sexual intercourse than girl students. The reason why most of students had sexual intercourse was the curiosity. Only 17.4% of students prevented conception, which shows the necessity of contraception. Especially, most of students have sexed with their opposite sex friends and that the age of student who has had sexual intercourse is getting younger. Taking this matter into consideration, we have to teach students about sexual intercourse from the elementary school.
3) Current sex counseling and education in middle school students
(1) Dating with opposite sex students was the big agony for students. Which implies that school should actively teach how to meet opposite sex students. Most students consult their problem with friends. Only 2.8% of students would like to consult with teachers.
(2) Students can get the sex information sex from school sex education. (43.8%). However older students get the information of sex from friend, video or pornography movie. Which implies systemized sex education is required.
(3) Though most of students recognize the necessity of school sex education, the present sex education was not satisfactory. So the sex education program should be improved and bettered.
(4) The reason why students were not satisfied with sex education is repeating itand old contents and that contents were too absurd. So teacher should make and develop the effective and systemized sex education information and materials for students.
(5) Presently, school sex education was focusing on pregnancy, contraception, abortion, and birth, however students would like to have the information about dating with opposite sex friends. Considering this fact, teacher should focused on sex education times and contents about proper dating manner.
(6) The facts that students would like to know was dating opposite sex friends, manners between boy and girl, sexual intercourse, masturbation, contraception, sex drive, and induced abortion. Finally in organizing the contents of school sex education those contents should be included.