Instead, we send our young people off to college, expecting them to be sexually confident in their abilities to refuse sexual advances or to be turned down; to manage sexual, romantic relationships, amongst life's other demands and enticements, with seasoned mastery; and to be sexually savvy, particularly when it comes to issues of health and safety.
SE commonly understood in terms of a refusal SE, that is, one's ability to refuse to drink in a tempting situation [ 34] plays a role when predicting the use of alcohol [ 10], tobacco [ 35], and marijuana [ 36].
But, as Professor Wolff explained, states have long had the ability to refuse to recognize marriages from other states that violated their local policies.
If certain kinds of pornography lead men to think that women are not sincere when they utter the word "no," and women are aware that men think this, those kinds of pornography would rob women of the ability to refuse.
In Oregon, the Atlas and Athena steroids education programs provide students with improved sports nutrition skills, a greater ability to refuse an offer of steroids as well as less desire to engage in future use of steroids.
Although Mr. Stokley informed parents in a letter that the survey would be "voluntary and anonymous," (the words were underlined and in bold type), the plaintiffs argue that children were herded to the test room with warnings not to cut and so had no real ability to refuse.
One item, the ability to refuse drug offers, favored youth in the conventional intervention arm over those in the computer or control arms.
These included positive and negative expectancies about alcohol effects, perceived peer and parent alcohol norms, perceived prevalence of adolescent alcohol use, and confidence in ability to refuse alcohol.
It could also involve limiting the use of freedom of information requests by extending the government's ability to refuse them on the basis of cost.
Gender, positive alcohol expectancies, and lack of confidence in ability to refuse alcohol all significantly interacted with peer norm, with these items more strongly associated with alcohol use when peer norm is toward "shouldn't drink".
She will clearly have much less ability to refuse jobs that she perceives (perhaps correctly) to involve exploitative or abusive treatment than if she received her welfare benefits unconditionally.
