The study of process of constructing sexual understanding of adolescent girls in Isfahan

The aim of this paper is to study the process of constructing sexual understanding of adolescent girls in Isfahan after facing the sexual world. This research has been carried out with the method of Grounded Theory and in a constructivist approach. Participants in the study were adolescent girls aged 12 to 18 years in Isfahan. The study has conducted by sequential purposive sampling method including snowball sampling and theoretical sampling, to examine the process of sexual understanding in adolescent girl's lived experience from their first facing with the sexual world so far. The technique used in the research was Intensive and narrative interviews, which helped us to achieve theoretical saturation by conducting 3 introductory and 24 final interviews. Based on the research findings, the process of facing Isfahan adolescent girls with the sexual world -from childhood to the present- was recognized in three categories of "problemati facing with the sexual world", "the age-based sexual understanding", and "disambiguation of sexual understanding". The connection between these concepts reflects the historicity of individual and social sexuality and fluidity in the construction of sexual understanding, and narrow this process from the initial facing with the sexual world to the constant access to new information, and reflexivity in thoughts, attitudes, and understanding in the light of cultural scenarios, interpersonal, and intrapsychic scripts until the interview time.