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Safer sexual practices among African American women: intersectional socialisation and sexual assertiveness.
- Source :
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Culture, Health & Sexuality . Jun2018, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p673-689. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Scholars have posited that childhood socialisation experiences may play a key role in influencing behaviours and attitudes that contribute to the acquisition of HIV. This study examined the links between past ethnic-racial and gender socialisation, sexual assertiveness and the safe sexual practices of African American college women utilising a cluster analytic approach. After identifying separate racial-gender and ethnic-gender socialisation profiles, results indicated that ethnic-gender socialisation cluster profiles were directly associated with sexual assertiveness and safer sex behaviour. Greater levels of ethnic socialisation and low traditional gender role socialisation were found to be associated with greater sexual assertiveness and safer sex behaviour. Further analysis showed that sexual assertiveness mediated the links between the identified ethnic-gender socialisation profiles and safer sex behaviour. Implications for policy and programme development are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SAFE sex in AIDS prevention
*SOCIALIZATION
*AFRICAN American women
*ATTITUDE (Psychology)
*AFRICAN Americans
*HUMAN sexuality
*ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology)
*BLACK people
*CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
*ETHNIC groups
*RACE
*GENDER role
*PSYCHOLOGY of women
*SAFE sex
HEALTH of African American women
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13691058
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130076861
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2017.1370132