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 Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2022), Pages: 1-7

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Vietnamese undergraduate students’ perspectives on sexual knowledge, attitudes, and risky sexual behavior

 Author(s): Tuan Van Pham 1, Ngoc Hai Tran 2, Hien Thi Thuy Tran 3, Thuy Doan Hua 3, Vinh-Long Tran-Chi 3, *

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Social Work, University of Labor and Social Affairs, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
 2Institute of Continuing Education, Ha Tinh University, Ha Tinh, Vietnam
 3Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7144-5515

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.01.001

 Abstract:

Human sexual behavior research is a multidisciplinary endeavor that seeks to comprehend one of the most vital and complex aspects of our behavioral science. This study aimed to investigate Vietnamese university students' perception of sexual knowledge as well as the relationship between gender, academic year, and sexual orientation. The questionnaire was sent to 666 Vietnamese undergraduate students in four universities which 418 respondents were considered valid for research purposes. The study results showed that there was a significant difference among the four study groups of different (1) academic year; (2) sexual orientations; (3) gender and academic year level; (4) academic year and sexual orientation; (5) gender, academic year, and sexual orientation level when considered jointly on the variables of the three aspects of the Sex knowledge and Attitude Questionnaire II. However, there was no reciprocal relationship between (6) gender; (7) gender, and sexual orientation level. The findings of this study will have implications for school policies that attempt to promote and maintain a positive school climate in an effort to address the issue of sexuality education, including sexual knowledge. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Sexual knowledge, Sexual orientations, Perception, Vietnamese, Undergraduate students

 Article History: Received 20 July 2021, Received in revised form 23 October 2021, Accepted 24 October 2021

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Pham TV, Tran NH, and Tran HTT et al. (2022). Vietnamese undergraduate students’ perspectives on sexual knowledge, attitudes, and risky sexual behavior. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(1): 1-7

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