Malagasy Teenager’s Current Social and Emotional Life (Case of Antananarivo Region)

Abstract

The sexual life of young Malagasy begins very early because of poverty, lack of communication between young people and their parents, and misinformation. Even if some concepts on sexuality are addressed in the Malagasy school curriculum at any grade level and that the mass media keeps talking about it, the statistical figures on the precocity of young people’s life do not seem to improve. In order to achieve the success of education in the emotional and sexual life of adolescents, an experiment with methods that take into account their affective functioning and intrinsic skills was implemented. These methods were applied with an artistic approach through role plays. The success of these methods was measured by the acquisition of three types of emotional and sexual knowledge, supporting the students to have a better vision for their future from an emotional, social and economic point of view. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)