The following message is being delivered on behalf of Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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Dr. Gillian Mason:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Early sexual initiation among adolescents in Peru: A longitudinal analysis among 15-year-olds," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2016-04-19 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2016-04-25.

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Submission URL: http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/4

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Early sexual initiation among adolescents in Peru: A longitudinal analysis among 15-year-olds"

Abstract
The percentage of teenage Peruvian women reporting having had sex is increasing. There are few studies in Latin America aimed at identifying the predictors of this behaviour. This study uses a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to explore which individual, family and community variables and changes of these over time predict sexual behaviour by age 15. Results show that early sexual initiation was positively associated with male gender, having a mother with less than complete secondary education, an increase in his/her family wealth over time, reporting having good peer relationships by age 12, being overage in school and reporting alcohol consumption and sexual behaviour of his/her group of friends. We found that peer relations were significant only for boys, while relations with parents were so only for girls. Finally, 11% of participants didn’t know if their last sexual partner used protection.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP