Afrocentric Cultural Consciousness and African American Male-Female Relationships

Bell, Yvonne R.; Bouie, Cathy L.; Baldwin, Joseph A.

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“…African American women are influenced by their relationships with their men and their broader social and institutional contexts (Bell, Bouie, & Baldwin, 1990). Future prevention and intervention efforts focusing on this group of women must account for their HIV risks relative to the particular dynamics at play within their sexual networks and the psychosocial drivers influencing their risk for HIV infection (i.e., desire for romantic partnerships).…”

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Gender Ratio Imbalance Effects on HIV Risk Behaviors in African American Women

Newsome

Airhihenbuwa

2012

Health Promotion Practice

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Although literature suggests that African American women are no more likely to engage in risky sex than their White counterparts, they are more likely to have sex partners with higher HIV risk. Thus, it is not solely an individual’s behavior that determines their risk, but also the behavior of their partner and their position within a sexual network. For this reason, it is important to consider the dynamics of heterosexual relationships in the African American community. An important area of concern regarding African American heterosexual relationships is that of partner availability. A shortage of available African American men for potential partnerships exists and is reportedly due to poorer health and higher mortality rates. Some have argued that gender-ratio imbalance may be responsible for increased HIV vulnerability for African American women. This article reviews the literature on gender ratio imbalance and HIV risk in the African American community, and presents implications and suggestions for future research and intervention.

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Gender Ratio Imbalance Effects on HIV Risk Behaviors in African American Women

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Airhihenbuwa

2012

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“…African-American heterosexual relationships have been influenced by the racism encountered by this group, particularly by way of the media and through institutional racism (Bell, Bouie, & Baldwin, 1990). These influences have affected how African-American males and females relate to one another.…”

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Re-Search: The Missing Pieces in Investigating African-American Relationship Dynamics and Implications for hiv Risk

Newsome¹,

Davis²,

Dinac³

2015

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Rates of hiv/aids are disproportionately high among African-Americans. Most prevention messaging has been focused at the individuals, while many of the drivers of hiv risk for African-Americans exist systemically. In order to make significant strides in hiv prevention and intervention, programs must account for the unique context of life experiences for African-Americans. In this manuscript, we make a call for conducting studies that more comprehensively examine the historical, societal, structural, and community-level factors that affect African-American heterosexual relationships, perpetuating increased risk for hiv/aids .

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“…Thus Afrocentricity, as measured by the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASCS), should be associated with positive individual behaviors and relational behaviors, as well as healthy psychological functioning (Baldwin, 1981(Baldwin, , 1984Bell, Bouie, & Baldwin, 1990;Jackson & Sears, 1992;Kambon, 1998;Utsey, Adams, & Bolden, 2000). Baldwin and Bell (1985) developed a list of 130 items intended to measure African Self-Consciousness in six areas of African American life: education, family, religion, cultural activities, interpersonal relations, and political orientations.…”

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Exploratory Factor Analysis of African Self-Consciousness Scale Scores

2011

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The current study is an exploratory factor analysis of the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASCS), a 42-item self-report measure of Afrocentricity, or the degree to which African American individuals espouse African-centered cultural, social, and political identities. Previous research has produced inconsistent results regarding the latent dimensionality and psychometric properties of the ASCS. With a sample of 348 African Americans, the current study conducts a methodologically rigorous exploratory factor analysis of ASCS scores. The study also examines convergent validity of the measure as compared to a measure of African Americans' endorsements of negative stereotypes of Blacks. Factor analysis produced strong support for a two-factor model of the ASCS.Further support for the validity of the ASCS was found when the factor assessing nonAfrocentric or anti-Afrocentric beliefs correlated significantly with the measure of stereotypes. This evidence strongly suggests that the ASCS is not a unidimensional measure. Implications of these findings for the use of the ASCS and recommendations for further investigation are discussed.

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Afrocentric Cultural Consciousness and African American Male-Female Relationships

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Gender Ratio Imbalance Effects on HIV Risk Behaviors in African American Women

Gender Ratio Imbalance Effects on HIV Risk Behaviors in African American Women

Re-Search: The Missing Pieces in Investigating African-American Relationship Dynamics and Implications for hiv Risk

Exploratory Factor Analysis of African Self-Consciousness Scale Scores

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