1. Development and Validation of the Power Imbalance in Couples Scale
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Neilands, Torsten B, Dworkin, Shari L, Chakravarty, Deepalika, Campbell, Chadwick K, Wilson, Patrick A, Gomez, Anu Manchikanti, Grisham, Kirk K, and Hoff, Colleen C
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Social and Personality Psychology ,Psychology ,Prevention ,Clinical Research ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Mental Health ,Infectious Diseases ,Adult ,HIV Infections ,Homosexuality ,Male ,Humans ,Interpersonal Relations ,Male ,Reproducibility of Results ,Risk-Taking ,Sexual Behavior ,Sexual Partners ,Gay male couples ,Relationship power ,Sexual risk behavior ,HIV ,Sexual orientation ,Public Health and Health Services ,Other Studies in Human Society ,Clinical Psychology ,Gender studies ,Clinical and health psychology ,Social and personality psychology - Abstract
Few researchers have quantitatively explored the relationship power-HIV risk nexus in same-sex male couples. We developed and validated the Power Imbalance in Couples Scale (PICS) to measure relationship power among men in same-sex, committed relationships and its association with sexual risk behaviors. We recruited three independent and diverse samples of male couples in the greater San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas and conducted qualitative interviews (N1 = 96) to inform item development, followed by two quantitative surveys (N2 = 341; N3 = 434) to assess the construct, predictive, convergent, and discriminant validity of the PICS. Exploratory factor analysis of the first survey's data yielded four factors-overtly controlling partner, supportive partner, conflict avoidant actor, and overtly controlling actor-that accounted for more than 50% of the shared variance among the PICS items. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the second survey's data supported these four factors: χ2(1823) = 2493.40, p
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- 2019