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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"sexual experiences"”.
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UNDERSTANDING THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
… to investigate how SCD affects a person’s sexual health. Methods: 18 PLWSCD, in the United States of America and Canada, participated in in-depth recorded interviews. Using thematic analysis, the interviews were coded, and themes were created. Results: In Manuscript 1, four themes were …
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Deconstructing sex: an in-depth, qualitative exploration of women’s sexual experiences and difficulties
Epidemiological research on sexual difficulties in women has reported high rates of sexual problems and dissatisfaction across the lifespan. Nevertheless, feminist scholars and social science researchers argue that an absence of research exploring women’s subjective interpretations of their …
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Women's *Labeling of Unwanted Sexual Experiences With Dating Partners: Measurement and Conceptual Issues
… study examines women's labeling of unwanted sexual experiences with dating partners among two samples of university women (total n = 1,395). The first goal of the present research was to examine the validity of the behavioral approach to measuring sexual abuse and assault by considering …
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Getting Ready and Getting Unready: How Queer College Women Navigate Their Casual Sexual Experiences
… with the label ‘woman’, navigate their casual sexual experiences while attending college or university. Previous studies acknowledge that, while college campuses are arenas for sexual experimentation and identity development for many young adults, students across gender and sexual identities …
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The victimization-substance relationship: an examination of nonconsensual sexual experiences and post-assault substance use
Women with nonconsensual sexual experience (NSE) history are at elevated risk of experiencing revictimization and engaging in post-NSE substance use. Though the risk of college women experiencing NSEs has been well-established, high school women have been mostly overlooked in the literature, …
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Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories
… how women come to terms with abusive childhood sexual experiences. In in-depth interviews, five women described how they have come to terms and the ways in which their experiences of sexual abuse influenced their identities, their relationships with others, and their embodiment. The data were …
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Alcohol Consumption and Unwanted Sexual Experiences Among College Females: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies
… females. Compared to males, females report more sexual consequences, such as doing something they later regret, as a result of alcohol consumption. For this reason, there is a vital need for researchers to identify active methods that females can engage in while consuming alcohol in order to …
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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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Psychometric Exploration of a Measure of Military Sexual Trauma (MST): The Military Unwanted Sexual Experiences Survey (MUSES)
Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is a category of wartime trauma found to have particularly deleterious effects on mental and physical health. Yet, no instrument exists that phenomenologically assesses MST, and the psychological correlates of MST are largely unknown. To address this gap in the …
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Sources of Sexual and Romantic Education: Associations with Sexual Minority Men’s Sexual Experiences and Romantic Relationship Quality
<p>Individuals with sexual minority identities experience a variety of poorer mental and physical health outcomes, including those related to sexual and romantic quality, relative to heterosexual individuals (Beaulieu et al., 2017; CDC, 2021). These poorer romantic, sexual, and psychological …
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Parent-child communication: influences of maternal sexual experiences as a teenager on the occurrence of sexuality communication with their adolescent
… that influence parent-child communication on sexual topics and sought to determine if maternal teenage sexual experiences influence mothers' discussions with their adolescent children. Randomly selected mothers of children ages 10-14 years were mailed questionnaires. Using a list of sexual …
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Predictors of harmful sexual behaviors in a normative population
… important predictors of high-risk and aggressive sexual behavior, this study examined the relationships between problematic sexual behavior, aberrant sexual experiences, family environment, parental monitoring, delinquency, and peer relatedness. Participants were 344 college students who completed …
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Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression
… women has been, or will have been, the victim of sexual aggression and/or rape in their lives (National Institute of Justice, 2000). This staggering statistic exemplifies the importance of speculating which traits are related to, or are predictive of, sexually aggressive behavior. Based on …
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Come: A Poetry Manuscript
… of Another Kind” is a sequence that uses sexual experiences as a catalyst to explore the collision of power, love, and cultural expectation.
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Waiting for Ignition
… meaningful connection through his romantic and sexual experiences.
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"I found myself having slept with him" : vulnerability to HIV and the first sexual encounter as described by six young Basotho women
… study is a qualitative exploration of the first sexual experiences of six young Basotho women between the ages of 16 and 24 and how these experiences leave them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The six young women were interviewed using a semistructured interview schedule focusing on first sexual …
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CONSUMPTION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT INTERNET MATERIAL AND WELLBEING: A SELF-DISCREPANCY APPROACH
<p>Potential influences from using sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM) are controversial, however, the underlying psychological mechanism(s), which potentially can explain these found associations with SEIM consumption, have not been well studied. In the present research, I examine the …
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Relationship of Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Self-Perception of Consent to Current Functioning
… challenged the prevailing belief that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has inherent deleterious effects. Resultantly, the authors proposed alternative terminology (e.g., child-adult sex), without adequate investigation into what distinguishes child-adult sex from CSA. In response, the current study …
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Sex talk: Factors that influence parent-child communication about sex
<p>Between 50 and 70% of young people are first sexually active between the ages of 15 and 17, and almost 90% by age 18. This early sexual debut puts adolescents at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy if they are uneducated about safe sex. For this reason, it is …
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