期刊
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
卷 64, 期 4, 页码 S45-S51出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.017
关键词
Social norms; Adolescent girl agency; Child marriages and unions; Adolescent and youth Sexual reproductive health
资金
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Purpose: Child marriages and unions can infringe upon adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH). Interventions increasingly promote strategies to transform social norms or foster the agency of adolescent girls. Recent empirical studies call for further understanding of how social norms and agency interact in ways that influence these practices, especially in contexts where girls' agency is central. Methods: A secondary cross-case analysis of three qualitative studies (in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras) was conducted to inform the investigation of how norms and agency may relate in sustaining or mitigating child marriage. Results: Social norms dictating how girls/young women and how men should act indirectly led to child marriages and unions. The data showed that (1) social norms regulated girls' acceptable actions and contributed to their exercise of oppositional agency; (2) social norms promoted girls' accommodating agency; and (3) girls exercised transformative agency to resist harmful social norms. Conclusions: Research should advance frameworks to conceptualize how social norms interact with agency in nuanced and context-specific ways. Practitioners should encourage equitable decision-making; offer confidential, adolescent-friendly AYSRH services; and address the social norms of parents, men and boys, and community members. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
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