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com Value-systems facilitate a richer understanding of how adolescents values sexual behaviors and concomitant behavioral outcomes such as delayed gratification. Personal values are a part of a persons life and provide guidance in how to live. Dibley and Baker (2001) suggest that value systems determine, regulate, and modify relationships between individuals, and societies. Personal values are often defined as beliefs and relatively stable cognitions that strongly impact emotions. Values are regarded as enduring beliefs that a particular mode of behavior or end-state of existence is preferable to opposite modes of behavior or end-state (Rokeach, 1973). According to Schwartz and Bilsky (1990), they can be conceptualized as cognitive representations of universal human requirements which include social interaction requirements and social institutional demands experienced by the individual. Although the possession of these values is universal, the importance attached to them varies to some degree according to the culture that shaped the individual. Value systems represent the whole range of values that describe human beings. Religion as a value-system has greater impact on how sexual values may be taken into consideration.