Making Decisions About Sexual Intercourse: Capturing College Students' Policies

Finkelstein, Marcia A.; Brannick, Michael Τ.

doi:10.1207/s15324834basp1901_8

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“…After signing the informed consent, each participant was given a packet that contained all the experimental protocol. Before beginning, participants were asked to read instructions for reading the vignettes and responding to questions about them, based on Finkelstein and Brannick's (1997) research.…”

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“…In order to depict a "serious" relationship, the partner was described as a "boyfriend/girlfriend" who the participant believed was "not seeing anyone else" and was "serious about." Other research that has manipulated partner-type has described serious relationships as those with a "care and responsibility theme" (Castañeda and Collin 1998 , p. 373), those where the couple had been dating for 1 month (Finkelstein and Brannick 1997), and those with "someone you feel very serious about" (Finkelstein and Brannick 2000, p. 542). However, this study sought to emphasize commitment and perceived seriousness, without a time constraint.…”

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“…Previous research using vignette methodology has investigated "likelihood" of condom use (Finkelstein and Brannick 2000) and "frequency" of sexual intercourse (Finkelstein and Brannick 1997) as dependent variables, but no other study has attempted to investigate difficulty implementing condom use on the levels of initiation, negotiation, and use. Because these variables were so closely related, they were combined into a single measure of difficulty.…”

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Gender Differences in Condom Use Behavior? The Role of Power and Partner-Type

Woolf

Maisto

2008

Sex Roles

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The primary goal of this study was to experimentally investigate the theory of gender and power (Wingood and DiClemente, Health Education and Behavior 27:539-565, 2000) in order to better understand gender differences in condom use behavior. The influence of relationship power (equal or low), partner-type (serious or casual), and gender on difficulty implementing condom use was explored using experimental vignettes. Heterosexual, sexually active, undergraduate students from a private university in the United States (N=203) indicated how "difficult" it would be to implement condom use in a variety of situations. Results revealed a significant main effect for power and partner-type, qualified by a significant three-way interaction. The consistency of these findings with the predictions of the theory and methodological limitations are discussed.

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Gender Differences in Condom Use Behavior? The Role of Power and Partner-Type

Woolf

Maisto

2008

Sex Roles

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“…While policy capturing has been employed in various domains to study decision-making, it represents a new approach in social psychology (e.g., Boon & Sulsky, 1997;Finkelstein & Brannick, 1997). Finkelstein and Brannick used the technique to examine situational variables that affect college students" decisions about engaging in intercourse.…”

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Making Decisions About Condoms: Whose Attitude Is It Anyway?

Finkelstein

Brannick

2000

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Policy capturing was used to assess the relative influence of one"s own attitudes and those of a sexual partner on decisions about condoms. Participants read vignettes describing a romantic encounter between themselves and a hypothetical date. Each vignette contained 6 independent variables; 3 described aspects of the participant"s attitudes toward condoms, and 3 described the corresponding attitudes of the date. For each scenario, participants judged the likelihood that they would use a condom should they have intercourse. The decision was independently affected by the attitudes of both participant and date. A second experiment showed the date"s influence increasing with time constraints. The results suggest that efforts to increase condom use may require heightened awareness of the influence of the other"s attitude on decision-making.

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“…Different judges, of course, can have different policies on the same topic (e.g., Dulebohn & Martocchio, 1998;Finkelstein & Brannick, 1997;Pergament, Sullivan, Balzer, & Van Haitsma, 1995;Tommasi, Williams, & Nordstrom, 1998). By the same token, different statistical procedures can produce quite different models of the judgment policy of the same judge (e.g., Brannick, 1986).…”

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