nika khosravi

 
Sex education in any society is one of the most important aspects of education that parents have an important role in educating their children. But in our society, for some reason, it has limitations. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to study the sexual education of adolescents with emphasis on their interpersonal relationships with parents in Tehran. The research method used was qualitative and the approach used was data-based theory, in the implementation of which the purposive sampling method was considered until the theoretical saturation was achieved. The important findings indicate that the effective factors in adolescent sexual education are parents 'involvement in religious teachings in the field of sexuality, soft, responsible and not firm communication in the family, parents' sensitivity to children's sexuality in the field of cognition and its consequences. From provocative sexual behavior in the public space of the family, the need for parents to master the communication skills of the new generation, empowering students in connection with the formation of a desirable sexual identity in schools. Finally, the central category of extraction in terms of the degree of abstraction, multilevel empowerment of socialization channels in the optimal training of sexual behaviors was identified.

Sex education is adopting methods for creating healthy sexualcharacteristics and behaviors and at the same time removing inappropriatesexual characteristics and behaviors from human existence. In otherwords, sex education offers a series of essential psychological, physical,and religious information regarding the sexual field related to anindividual, as well as providing information and awareness to theindividual in order to become more familiar with the characteristics of theopposite sex. The present study aimed to investigate sex education ofadolescents in Tehran and its underlying factors with emphasis oninterpersonal relationships with parents. To this end, qualitative researchmethod and interviewing technique were used for data collection. Thegrounded theory approach was employed to analyze the data. Theobtained data resulted in forming categories such as awareness ofreligious issues related to sex education, parents’ awareness of sexualissues and its physical and psychological effects, parents’ appropriatebehaviors in family, parents’ awareness of and dominance on somecommunication skills for better connections with children, sex educationin the form of school education, parents’ education and socialization,correct transfer of sexual norms and guidelines to children, existence ofan emotional connection in family, supervision of school activities forchildren and adolescents, and cooperation with parents in this field. Theseconcepts were categorized into three themes: family, educational orextramarital and social factors. Finally, based on the results, one of themain reasons for influencing sexual education in this study is theawareness among families and at the top among parents.