Social studies of sexuality are among the fastest growing and most popular fields of social research This article is focused on the Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students In the SIS (The Survey on Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students)5,000 youth are interviewed. It is a big representative sample of students in their first and second year of Statistics and Economics courses at Italian State Universities during the academic year 2000-01. The questionnaire was self-administered (without interference from the interviewer). The questionnaire comprises about 200 close questions. The high sample size is an important characteristic for a survey on sexuality, in order to have the minority behaviour emerge. The SIS (The Survey on Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students) employs a quantitative approach from a population perspective. By following a quantitative approach it is possible to define the indicators of the various aspects of sexual behaviour. This operation is necessary because the SIS has been carried out in other seven countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Poland, France, Japan, and the USA) with the very same questionnaire and similar survey modalities. The diverse countries – but also the subgroups of the Italian sample – can in this way be examined by means of comparable measures. A quantitative approach allows a more rigorous comparison of life courses. Our questionnaire is interspersed with retrospective questions through which it is possible to reconstruct the main stages of the affective and sexual biographies (the first kiss, the first and last couple relationship, first sexual intercourse, and so on). With a quantitative approach, it is quite easy to measure the statistical association between sexual behaviour indicators and indicators referring to other types of behaviour, by verifying if the theoretical hypotheses on the differential behaviours hold true. The survey is very large and covers all the Italian regions providing very useful and large insights into a topic which has been neglected so far, probably because it does not belong to our cultural tradition. So this research represents a breakthrough in this topic. We believe that our results, although referring to a sub-population, can to a certain degree inform us of the sexual behaviour of the children of the Italian middle and upper middle classes, having their sexual socialisation in Italy at the end of the 20th century.

A survey on Italian University students. Theoretical hypothesis and data collection

CRISAFULLI, Carmelo
2004-01-01

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Social studies of sexuality are among the fastest growing and most popular fields of social research This article is focused on the Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students In the SIS (The Survey on Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students)5,000 youth are interviewed. It is a big representative sample of students in their first and second year of Statistics and Economics courses at Italian State Universities during the academic year 2000-01. The questionnaire was self-administered (without interference from the interviewer). The questionnaire comprises about 200 close questions. The high sample size is an important characteristic for a survey on sexuality, in order to have the minority behaviour emerge. The SIS (The Survey on Sexual Behaviour of Italian Students) employs a quantitative approach from a population perspective. By following a quantitative approach it is possible to define the indicators of the various aspects of sexual behaviour. This operation is necessary because the SIS has been carried out in other seven countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Poland, France, Japan, and the USA) with the very same questionnaire and similar survey modalities. The diverse countries – but also the subgroups of the Italian sample – can in this way be examined by means of comparable measures. A quantitative approach allows a more rigorous comparison of life courses. Our questionnaire is interspersed with retrospective questions through which it is possible to reconstruct the main stages of the affective and sexual biographies (the first kiss, the first and last couple relationship, first sexual intercourse, and so on). With a quantitative approach, it is quite easy to measure the statistical association between sexual behaviour indicators and indicators referring to other types of behaviour, by verifying if the theoretical hypotheses on the differential behaviours hold true. The survey is very large and covers all the Italian regions providing very useful and large insights into a topic which has been neglected so far, probably because it does not belong to our cultural tradition. So this research represents a breakthrough in this topic. We believe that our results, although referring to a sub-population, can to a certain degree inform us of the sexual behaviour of the children of the Italian middle and upper middle classes, having their sexual socialisation in Italy at the end of the 20th century.
2004
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