South Asian Canadian Young Adults’ Culture and Sexual Health
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Abstract
Second-generation South Asian Canadian young adults typically report more sexual conservatism than their peers of other ethnic backgrounds. However, we are unsure of whether this is reflective of something inherent to South Asian ethnic culture or more sexuality-specific beliefs. The current study aimed to expand our understanding about the role of cultural values and restrictive sexual beliefs, specifically sexual double standard and rape myth endorsement, in South Asian Canadian young adults’ psychosocial sexual health. The sexual double standard and rape myths are both global phenomena that have been linked to conservative sexual attitudes. The psychosocial sexual health outcomes examined in the current study were sexual subjectivity and sexual communication self-efficacy. Participants were recruited through social media advertisements and reaching out to relevant organizations across Canada. Participants completed a 15-minute survey and the resulting data was analyzed in RStudio. The final sample (N = 107) ranged from 18 - 29 years old (M = 23.60, SD = 2.89) and consisted of second-generation South Asian Canadians. Interesting results emerged relating to gender differences, the role of restrictive sexual beliefs and differences in ethnic cultural values. Findings suggested that the sexual double standard may be a promising area to target in future sexual health promotion efforts. Ultimately, this study highlights the nuance in South Asian Canadian young adults’ sexuality and brings to light the idea that many factors, beyond cultural values, may contribute to their sexual health.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".