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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sexual decision-making"”.
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Predictors of Sexual Relationship Power, Communication and Sexual Decision Making among Latino Couples
… various factors affect Latino couples’ sexual relationship power, communication and decision making about family planning, including sexual relationship power, relationship commitment, dyadic adjustment, individual background, and cultural characteristics. Previous research has not …
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Familial and Self Systems as Contributors to Sexual Decision-making Patterns of Young African American Women
… use among African American women recruited at a sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic. Phase One utilized qualitative methods to analyze interviews from 25 unmarried, African American women between ages 18--26. Interviews explored the following two research questions: (1) How do young adult …
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The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making
… process of college women's emotional labor in sexual decision-making and how women talk about their sexual decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women's sexual subjectivity; how it affects their …
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Exploring Self-Efficacy and Locus of Control as Risk Factors for Sexual Decision-Making for African American Women
Sexually transmitted diseases have reached epidemic proportions, especially among African Americans. However, African American women have emerged as being one of the hardest hit groups by the most fatal of sexually transmitted diseases - the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Acquired …
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Partner-specific abstinence state change in adolescent women
… change over time is important to understanding sexual decision-making. In this longitudinal study of 365 young women, the influence of relationship quality, motivations for coitus, sexual relationship satisfaction, sexual self-efficacy, sexual conservatism, and religiosity were evaluated in a …
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Heterosexual anal sex in the age of HIV : an exploratory study of a silenced subject
… into the underdiscussed topic of heterosexual anal sex and pervading penile-vaginal heteronormativity. To understand the origins and character of the seemingly universal ambivalence towards heterosexual anal intercourse I attempt to situate it historically. There is general ignorance …
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Heterosexual penile/anal intercourse and HIV in five sub-Saharan African countries
… Africa is understood to be primarily 'sexually transmitted'. The majority of HIV prevention efforts in the region have focused on 'heterosexual sex' as the key transmission vector, without defining what 'heterosexual sex' refers to. Penile-anal intercourse (PAI) has the highest per act …
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In Pursuit of Paternal Significance: Fathers' Influence on their Daughters' and Sons' Sexual Behaviors and Beliefs
… Numerous factors are involved in adolescent sexual decision-making and the social-ecological framework suggests that there are multiple levels of influence on adolescent development, including familial. Utilizing survey data from the Virginia Abstinence Education Initiative (VAEI), this …
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Queering LGB+ Women's Sexual Scripts
The invisibility of lesbian, plurisexual, and gay (LGB+) women in sexual health research is of particular concern when it comes to understanding and supporting their safer sex practices. Results of a qualitative secondary analysis of sexual decision-making interviews among 22 LGB+ cisgender women …
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Reflections of Teenage Mothers Who Chose Unprotected Sex At the Time of Conception
… opinions, and ideologies that impacted their sexual decision-making. A convenience sample of 8 subjects was recruited from a local facility specializing in eduation, support, and intervention for teenage parents, and data collection consisted of a series of audiotaped interviews conducted by …
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Baudžiamoji atsakomybė už seksualinį priekabiavimą /
As society has become increasingly aware of sexual offences and their victims, it has become apparent that sexual harassment is a topic of particular relevance for criminal law. The aim of this work is to analyse the concept and composition of sexual harassment and to distinguish the elements of …
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HIV/AIDS related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of FET College students: implications for sexual health promotion
… knowledge, self-concept and self-efficacy. Risky sexual behaviour was measured in terms of condom use and the number of sexual partners in the 12 months prior to the study with males reporting significantly more risky sexual behaviour. More males (70% vs. 43 % females) reported no condom use when …
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Blurred lines: perceptions of sexual consent and the role of mental illness
Sexual activity can be a pleasurable and critical element of self-expression. However, research has found that mental illness is a condition that may affect the ability to sexually consent. Despite this fact, sexual consent remains under-studied and under-theorized when considering the various ways …
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Youth, relationships and risk in the context of HIV/AIDS : how do Grade 10 learners in four secondary schools in the Western Cape make relationship choices and how is this related to their conceptions of risk
… these conceptions influence relationship choice making in the context of HIV/AIDS? The research explores how youth in four secondary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa make relationship choices based on their conceptions of risk. The main focus of the research looks at youth identity and …
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What are we missing? a qualitative exploration of sexual agency and the related behaviours of AGYW in two HIV interventions in South Africa.
… less explored areas within lived experience of sexual agency and subsequent behaviour choices may be contributing to the sustained incidence but may be less understood due to a lack of research that adopts a lens prioritising this focus. The legacy of colonial history in the study of sexuality …
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Understanding the Association Between Body Image and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Female College Students: The Influence of Race and Sexual Orientation
… Annually, there are approximately 19 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs), half among individuals ages 15-24. College females are particularly vulnerable to STIs, and research has shown that body image influences sexual decision making. However, the impact of body image on sexual …
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How Adopting Stereotypical Roles May Impact Sexual Risk Behavior Among Young African American College Women
<p>Sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention issues for women, particularly women of color, are multifaceted and far-reaching. Cultural dynamics unique to black women, such as attitudes, values and beliefs are often not considered. The proposed study assesses culturally specific factors that …
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A WOMAN'S VOICE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HOW FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE WOMEN UNDERSTAND THEIR SEXUAL EXPERIENCES
… how first-year college women understand their sexual experiences. By gathering narratives directly from first-year college women regarding their sex education background and experiences, this dissertation will obtain information needed to offer the types of successful strategies and information …
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Adolescent Sexuality in Indian Criminal Law: Towards Balancing Autonomy and Vulnerability
… Indian criminal law’s regulation of adolescent sexuality and propose recommendations aimed at balancing the developing sexual autonomy of adolescents with their particular vulnerabilities. I argue that the regulation of adolescent sexuality by Indian criminal law is normatively over- and …
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