Evaluating the Risk and Attractiveness of Romantic Partners When Confronted with Contradictory Cues

Hennessy, Michael; Fishbein, Martin; Curtis, Brenda; Barrett, Daniel W.

doi:10.1007/s10461-006-9156-9

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“…This result is consistent with past research using survey, experimental, and qualitative research 30–32 that demonstrates that adolescents (and adults) use informal rules (e.g., “heuristics”) in an attempt to choose safe sex partners. The media intervention emphasized that one cannot tell how many partners someone has had in the past and therefore that one should always use a condom when having sex.…”

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Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results From Project iMPPACS

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Objectives To estimate the long term (36 month) effects of Project iMPPACS, a multi-site randomized control trial of mass media and small group intervention for African-American adolescents. Methods Six waves of longitudinal data were collected on program participants. Seemingly unrelated regressions at each wave estimate the effects of three types of mass media messages (“thematic mediators”) on condom use intention and self-reported unprotected vaginal sex events. Results The mediators of behavior change that were introduced during the media intervention were sustained to the follow-up assessments at least 18 months after the intervention ended. Conclusions Project iMPPACS demonstrates that mass media influence delivered over an extended period, when adolescents were beginning to learn patterns of behavior associated with sex, persisted after the media program ended.

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“…The perceived ability to select safe partners corroborates past research that has used survey, experimental, and qualitative methods [35–38] to show that adolescents (and adults) use informal rules (e.g., “heuristics”) to choose safe partners and to decide when to have sex [39], although such strategies are flawed and may result in negative health outcomes [40]. In this case, the use of this informal rule predicted the most risky contraceptive decisions.…”

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Multiple Method Contraception Use among African American Adolescents in Four US Cities

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Sales

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Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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We report on African American adolescents' (N = 850; M age = 15.4) contraceptive practices and type of contraception utilized during their last sexual encounter. Respondents completed measures of demographics, contraceptive use, sexual partner type, and ability to select “safe” sexual partners. 40% endorsed use of dual or multiple contraceptive methods; a total of 35 different contraceptive combinations were reported. Perceived ability to select “safe” partners was associated with not using contraception (OR = 1.25), using less effective contraceptive methods (OR = 1.23), or hormonal birth control (OR = 1.50). Female gender predicted hormonal birth control use (OR = 2.33), use of less effective contraceptive methods (e.g., withdrawal; OR = 2.47), and using no contraception (OR = 2.37). Respondents' age and partner type did not predict contraception use. Adolescents used contraceptive methods with limited ability to prevent both unintended pregnancies and STD/HIV. Adolescents who believed their partners posed low risk were more likely to use contraceptive practices other than condoms or no contraception. Reproductive health practitioners are encouraged to help youth negotiate contraceptive use with partners, regardless of the partner's perceived riskiness.

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“…This finding is consistent with Zawacki’s (2011) conclusion that women’s interest in a sexual relationship was negatively related to their perception of his sexual risk. Hennessy, Fishbein, Curtis, and Barrett (2007) also suggested that initial romantic attraction may decrease consideration of sexual risk information. As expected, too, across all risk groups, health appraisals were positively related to risk judgments.…”

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How Do Alcohol and Relationship Type Affect Women’s Risk Judgment of Partners With Differing Risk Histories?

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Kiekel

Morrison

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Understanding how women judge male partners’ sexual risk is important to developing risk reduction programs. Applying a cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making, our study investigated effects of alcohol consumption (control, low dose, high dose) and relationship type (disrupted vs. new) on women’s risk judgments of a male sexual partner in three sexual risk conditions (low, unknown, high). After random assignment to an experimental condition, 328 participants projected themselves into a story depicting a sexual interaction. The story was paused to assess primary appraisals of sexual and relationship potential and secondary appraisals of pleasure, health, and relationship concerns, followed by sexual risk judgments. In all risk conditions, alcohol and disrupted relationship increased sexual potential whereas disrupted relationship increased relationship potential in the low- and high-risk conditions. In the unknown-risk condition, women in the no-alcohol, new relationship condition had the lowest primary sexual appraisals. In all conditions, sexual appraisals predicted all secondary appraisals, but primary relationship appraisals predicted only secondary relationship appraisals. Secondary health appraisals led to increased risk judgments whereas relationship appraisals predicted lower risk judgments. Possible intervention points include helping women to re-evaluate their safety beliefs about past partners, as well as to develop behavioral strategies for decreasing hazardous drinking.

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Evaluating the Risk and Attractiveness of Romantic Partners When Confronted with Contradictory Cues

Cited by 22 publications

References 43 publications

Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results From Project iMPPACS

Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results From Project iMPPACS

Multiple Method Contraception Use among African American Adolescents in Four US Cities

How Do Alcohol and Relationship Type Affect Women’s Risk Judgment of Partners With Differing Risk Histories?

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