Structural Equation Modeling Factors Influencing the Rethinking of Youth's Sexual Interactions

Youth as a social, cultural and biological structure is the basis and groundwork for social changes.Therefore, due to the increasing growth of the rethinking of sexual interactions as well as the increase of inter-gender interactions and changes in its form and content, the purpose of this study was to investigate the most important factors affecting the rethinking of sexual interactions of young people. The statistical population of the study included students from 18 to 29 years old at universities in Tehran. Sampling was done using multi-stage cluster sampling. The sample size was 384 according to Cochran's formula. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The findings of this study showed that there was a significant relationship between Filiarchy, long-term residence of young people in the family, individualism, the use of new communication technologies, the role of women and men, and the socioeconomic status with the amount of rethinking of sexual interactions. The findings of stepwise regression showed that modern communication technologies, individualism, change in the role of women and men, social and economic status, and childbirth, in total involve 18.3% of the variance in the rethinking of sexual interactions of young people. Using the structural equation model of Amos, it was found that changes in the image of a husband and wife through childbearing and individualism, as well as the use of new communication technologies, and the socio-economic base affect the level of rethinking in sexual interactions.