Diane M Morrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 156582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane M Morrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane M |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrison |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISON D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6710-263X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sexual Self-Efficacy and Entitlement to Pleasure
Correlates of Young Men's Intention to Discuss Birth Control with Female Partners
Strategies that merit further exploration as potential supports for men's intention to discuss birth control include improving men's self-efficacy and positive attitudes and norms pertaining to such discussions, and reducing belief in traditionally masculine sexual scripts or transforming them to include discussing birth control. Future research should work both experimentally and longitudinally to document each element of the process that ends w…
Predicting Sexual Assault Perpetration Among Heterosexually Active Young Men
Data from an online community sample of young men were analyzed to test predictors of sexual assault perpetration. We used structural equation modeling to test the relative contributions of specific sub-types of childhood adversity to subsequent sexual aggression. Mediators included hostile masculinity, impersonal sexual behavior and attitudes, and substance use variables. Findings suggested that childhood sexual abuse had direct and mediated eff…
Assessing Variations in Developmental Outcomes Among Teenage Offspring of Teen Mothers
This study investigated potential heterogeneity in development among offspring (age 17) of teen mothers and maternal life course as correlates of variation. Using latent class analysis, subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified. Maternal standing in two life course realms (i.e., socioeconomic and domestic) was considered as a potential explanation for heterogeneity in offspring's development. Offspring reported on measures assessing the…
Condom-Insistence Conflict in Women’s Alcohol-Involved Sexual Encounters With a New Male Partner
First-time sexual intercourse with a new male partner, relative to other sexual encounters, is associated with heightened risk to women for contracting sexually transmitted infections. Little is known, however, about women's condom-related decision-making processes during these first-time sexual encounters. In the present study, we surveyed a community sample of 179 women aged 18-30 about their alcohol consumption, desire to use a condom, percept…
A Latent Class Analysis of Heterosexual Young Men’s Masculinities
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Risk Behavior among Young Heterosexually Active Men
Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization is linked to sexual risk exposure among women. However, less is known about the intersection of IPV perpetration and sexual risk behavior among men. This study used data from a diverse, community sample of 334 heterosexually active young men, aged 18 to 25, across the United States to examine whether and how men with distinct IPV-related behavior patterns differed in sexual risk-related behavior and a…
Partner Type, Sexual Double Standard Endorsement, and Ambivalence Predict Abdication and Unprotected Sex Intentions in a Community Sample of Young Women
In-the-moment ambivalence about having sex may influence sexual decisions but has rarely been examined. We investigated how ambivalence about sex might be related to intentions to abdicate sexual decisions to a male partner and to engage in unprotected sex in a community sample of young women. Predictors of abdication and unprotected sex intentions included partner type (new casual versus previous relationship), sexual double standard (SDS) endor…
He Enjoys Giving Her Pleasure”
Influences of acute alcohol consumption, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation on women's relationship and sex appraisals and unprotected sex intentions
Guided by the cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making ( Norris, Masters, & Zawacki, 2004 . Cognitive mediation of women's sexual decision making: The influence of alcohol, contextual factors, and background variables. Annual Review of Sex Research, 15, 258-296), we examined female social drinkers' ( N = 162) in-the-moment risky sexual decision making by testing how individual differences (relationship motivation) and situational facto…
Condoms and Contexts
Heterosexual men's sexual safety behavior is important to controlling the U.S. epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While sexual safety is often treated as a single behavior, such as condom use, it can also be conceptualized as resulting from multiple factors. Doing so can help us achieve more nuanced understandings of sexual risk and safety within partner-related contexts. We used late…
Sexually Explicit Online Media and Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States
Negative and Positive Factors Associated With the Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth
Factors associated with the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth were qualitatively examined to better understand how these factors are experienced from the youths' perspectives. Largely recruited from LGBTQ youth groups, 68 youth participated in focus groups ( n = 63) or individual interviews ( n = 5). The sample included 50% male, 47% female, and 3% transgender participants. Researchers used a …
How Do Alcohol and Relationship Type Affect Women’s Risk Judgment of Partners With Differing Risk Histories
Understanding how women judge male partners' sexual risk is important to developing risk reduction programs. Applying a cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making, our study investigated effects of alcohol consumption (control, low dose, high dose) and relationship type (disrupted vs. new) on women's risk judgments of a male sexual partner in three sexual risk conditions (low, unknown, high). After random assignment to an experimental co…
Social services for sexual minority youth
Sexual Scripts among Young Heterosexually Active Men and Women
Whereas gendered sexual scripts are hegemonic at the cultural level, research suggests they may be less so at dyadic and individual levels. Understanding "disjunctures" between sexual scripts at different levels holds promise for illuminating mechanisms through which sexual scripts can change. Through interviews with 44 heterosexually active men and women aged 18 to 25, the ways young people grappled with culture-level scripts for sexuality and r…
Comparison of Daily and Retrospective Reports of Vaginal Sex in Heterosexual Men and Women
This study examined the agreement between daily and retrospective reports of vaginal sex over a two-month period in a sample of 376 heterosexually active men and women. We also examined whether gender, age, or method of daily data collection (self-administered vs. interviewer administered) were related to agreement between daily and retrospective reports. Both counts and categorical measures of frequency of the behaviors were examined. There were…
The Opposite of Sex? Adolescents’ Thoughts About Abstinence and Sex, and Their Sexual Behavior
Youth do not consider abstinence and sexual activity opposing constructs, and solely instilling positive abstinence attitudes and intentions in youth may not have robust effects in preventing sexual activity
Marriage Following Adolescent Parenthood
Research suggests that adult marriages confer benefits. Does marriage following a teenage birth confer benefits similar to those observed for adults? Longitudinal data from a community sample of 235 young women who gave birth as unmarried adolescents were used to examine this question. Controlling for socioeconomic status and preexisting "benefits," we found that marriage conferred small, though statistically significant, benefits with regard to …
Drinking and Condom use
Agreement of Daily Diary and Retrospective Measures of Condom Use
The Reliability and Validity of a Group-Based Measure of Adolescents' Friendship Closeness
Objective: Six items were administered to a multiethnic sample of 435 middle school—age participants in a group-delivered safer sex intervention to determine their reliability and validity. Method: Exploratory analyses were followed by confirmatory factor analyses, and then correlations of scale scores with theoretically related variables were computed. Results: Findings favored a unidimensional scale with high internal consistency (with as few a…
Life Course Heterogeneity in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood Among Adolescent Mothers
Longitudinal data were used to examine pathways taken by 227 adolescent mothers during the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Latent profile analysis identified three sub‐groups of adolescent mothers from 6 months to 6 years postpartum: a problem‐prone profile (15%), a psychologically vulnerable profile (42%), and a normative profile (43%). Group membership was related to long‐term adult outcomes (adult status markers, health‐risk and de…
Analysis with Missing Data in Social Work Research
Missing data occur in virtually all research. Traditional methods for handling missing data, like complete case analyses and mean substitution, can result in the loss of statistical power and biased estimates of parameters. Recent statistical and software developments have provided readily accessible methods of handling missing data that provide more statistical power and less biased estimates than in the past. This paper compares newer technique…
Condom use, frequency of sex, and number of partners
Sexual health research often relies on single risk indicators. However multi-variable composites may better capture the underlying construct of risk-taking. Latent Profile Analysis identified subgroups based on condom use consistency, partner numbers, and sex frequency among 605 adolescents. Three profiles were identified for each of grades 8 to 10 (Condom Users, Few Partners, and Risk-Takers) and 4 in grades 11 and 12 (Condom Users, One Partner …
Sexual Scripts among Young Heterosexually Active Men and Women
Whereas gendered sexual scripts are hegemonic at the cultural level, research suggests they may be less so at dyadic and individual levels. Understanding "disjunctures" between sexual scripts at different levels holds promise for illuminating mechanisms through which sexual scripts can change. Through interviews with 44 heterosexually active men and women aged 18 to 25, the ways young people grappled with culture-level scripts for sexuality and r…
Condom use, frequency of sex, and number of partners
Sexual health research often relies on single risk indicators. However multi-variable composites may better capture the underlying construct of risk-taking. Latent Profile Analysis identified subgroups based on condom use consistency, partner numbers, and sex frequency among 605 adolescents. Three profiles were identified for each of grades 8 to 10 (Condom Users, Few Partners, and Risk-Takers) and 4 in grades 11 and 12 (Condom Users, One Partner …
Negative and Positive Factors Associated With the Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth
Factors associated with the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth were qualitatively examined to better understand how these factors are experienced from the youths' perspectives. Largely recruited from LGBTQ youth groups, 68 youth participated in focus groups ( n = 63) or individual interviews ( n = 5). The sample included 50% male, 47% female, and 3% transgender participants. Researchers used a …
HIV/STD Risk Factors for Women with Violent Male Partners
Teen Sexual Behavior
We examined the utility of the theory of reasoned action for predicting sexual intercourse among teenagers and determined whether it holds for both genders and for those with and without prior sexual experience. The data include 749 students who were in 9th-11th grades when the predictors were measured and in 10th-12th grades when sexual intercourse was assessed. About half (53%) were girls, about half (48%) were non-Hispanic European Americans. …
Life Course Heterogeneity in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood Among Adolescent Mothers
Longitudinal data were used to examine pathways taken by 227 adolescent mothers during the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Latent profile analysis identified three sub‐groups of adolescent mothers from 6 months to 6 years postpartum: a problem‐prone profile (15%), a psychologically vulnerable profile (42%), and a normative profile (43%). Group membership was related to long‐term adult outcomes (adult status markers, health‐risk and de…
Predicting Sexual Assault Perpetration Among Heterosexually Active Young Men
Data from an online community sample of young men were analyzed to test predictors of sexual assault perpetration. We used structural equation modeling to test the relative contributions of specific sub-types of childhood adversity to subsequent sexual aggression. Mediators included hostile masculinity, impersonal sexual behavior and attitudes, and substance use variables. Findings suggested that childhood sexual abuse had direct and mediated eff…
Daily data collection
This paper compares three methods for daily data collection to examine the co‐occurrence of intoxication and unsafe sex at the incident level. Sexually transmitted disease clinic clients and sexually active college students were randomized to complete either written daily diaries, daily telephone interviews they initiated, or daily telephone interviews initiated by project staff, for a period of 4 weeks. The three methods are compared on rates of…
Sexually Explicit Online Media and Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States
Comparison of Daily and Retrospective Reports of Vaginal Sex in Heterosexual Men and Women
This study examined the agreement between daily and retrospective reports of vaginal sex over a two-month period in a sample of 376 heterosexually active men and women. We also examined whether gender, age, or method of daily data collection (self-administered vs. interviewer administered) were related to agreement between daily and retrospective reports. Both counts and categorical measures of frequency of the behaviors were examined. There were…
Partner Type, Sexual Double Standard Endorsement, and Ambivalence Predict Abdication and Unprotected Sex Intentions in a Community Sample of Young Women
In-the-moment ambivalence about having sex may influence sexual decisions but has rarely been examined. We investigated how ambivalence about sex might be related to intentions to abdicate sexual decisions to a male partner and to engage in unprotected sex in a community sample of young women. Predictors of abdication and unprotected sex intentions included partner type (new casual versus previous relationship), sexual double standard (SDS) endor…
Adolescent Drinking and Sex
Daily data collection of sexual and other health‐related behaviors
Is daily data collection of sexual and other health‐related behaviors reactive? This question was examined by exploring trends in daily reports of sexual intercourse, condom use, drinking, smoking, and vegetable and fruit consumption over a 2‐month period. The trends were examined for evidence of fatigue effects and socially desirable responding. The effects of data collection method and gender were also examined. Results from a hierarchical line…
Predicting contraceptive behavior from attitudes
Within- versus across-subjects procedures for predicting behavior from attitudes were contrasted. Each procedure requires a comparison among attitudes in order to generate a prediction; the comparison is either among the same attitudes held by different people (across subjects) or among different attitudes held by the same person (within subject). It was hypothesized that the within-subject model provides a more adequate explanation of behavior f…
He Enjoys Giving Her Pleasure”
Sexual behaviors, substance use, and condom use in a sexually transmitted disease clinic sample
In many studies, alcohol and drug use is clearly associated with behaviors that put individuals at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). However, the nature of the association remains unclear. In this study we examined the relationship of condom use with substance use in adults with other sex partners (N = 508) who were seeking services in an STD clinic, engaged in high levels of risky sexual behaviors, and also engaged in high levels of…
Influences of acute alcohol consumption, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation on women's relationship and sex appraisals and unprotected sex intentions
Guided by the cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making ( Norris, Masters, & Zawacki, 2004 . Cognitive mediation of women's sexual decision making: The influence of alcohol, contextual factors, and background variables. Annual Review of Sex Research, 15, 258-296), we examined female social drinkers' ( N = 162) in-the-moment risky sexual decision making by testing how individual differences (relationship motivation) and situational facto…
Condoms and Contexts
Heterosexual men's sexual safety behavior is important to controlling the U.S. epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While sexual safety is often treated as a single behavior, such as condom use, it can also be conceptualized as resulting from multiple factors. Doing so can help us achieve more nuanced understandings of sexual risk and safety within partner-related contexts. We used late…
Analysis with Missing Data in Social Work Research
Missing data occur in virtually all research. Traditional methods for handling missing data, like complete case analyses and mean substitution, can result in the loss of statistical power and biased estimates of parameters. Recent statistical and software developments have provided readily accessible methods of handling missing data that provide more statistical power and less biased estimates than in the past. This paper compares newer technique…
Social services for sexual minority youth
Sexual Self-Efficacy and Entitlement to Pleasure
Assessing Variations in Developmental Outcomes Among Teenage Offspring of Teen Mothers
This study investigated potential heterogeneity in development among offspring (age 17) of teen mothers and maternal life course as correlates of variation. Using latent class analysis, subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified. Maternal standing in two life course realms (i.e., socioeconomic and domestic) was considered as a potential explanation for heterogeneity in offspring's development. Offspring reported on measures assessing the…
A Latent Class Analysis of Heterosexual Young Men’s Masculinities
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Risk Behavior among Young Heterosexually Active Men
Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization is linked to sexual risk exposure among women. However, less is known about the intersection of IPV perpetration and sexual risk behavior among men. This study used data from a diverse, community sample of 334 heterosexually active young men, aged 18 to 25, across the United States to examine whether and how men with distinct IPV-related behavior patterns differed in sexual risk-related behavior and a…
How Do Alcohol and Relationship Type Affect Women’s Risk Judgment of Partners With Differing Risk Histories
Understanding how women judge male partners' sexual risk is important to developing risk reduction programs. Applying a cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making, our study investigated effects of alcohol consumption (control, low dose, high dose) and relationship type (disrupted vs. new) on women's risk judgments of a male sexual partner in three sexual risk conditions (low, unknown, high). After random assignment to an experimental co…
Predicting contraceptive behavior from attitudes
Within- versus across-subjects procedures for predicting behavior from attitudes were contrasted. Each procedure requires a comparison among attitudes in order to generate a prediction; the comparison is either among the same attitudes held by different people (across subjects) or among different attitudes held by the same person (within subject). It was hypothesized that the within-subject model provides a more adequate explanation of behavior f…
Adolescent contraceptive behavior
Adolescent contraceptive behavior
This review examines the psychologically oriented literature on adolescent contraceptive use. Descriptive studies individual difference studies and theory-based studies from family planning medical and applied journals are covered as well as studies appearing in psychology journals. The findings indicate that many teenagers are startlingly uninformed about basic reproductive physiology. A sizeable proportion of adolescents surveyed believed thems…
Interventions to decrease the risk of HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases among high-risk heterosexual adolescents
Sexual risk behavior, knowledge, and condom use among adolescents in Juvenile detention
Sexual behaviors, substance use, and condom use in a sexually transmitted disease clinic sample
In many studies, alcohol and drug use is clearly associated with behaviors that put individuals at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). However, the nature of the association remains unclear. In this study we examined the relationship of condom use with substance use in adults with other sex partners (N = 508) who were seeking services in an STD clinic, engaged in high levels of risky sexual behaviors, and also engaged in high levels of…
Beliefs About Substance Use Among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents
Although substance use among pregnant and parenting adolescents has serious health implications for both mother and infant, few studies have investigated the predictors of such behavior. The present study, based on the Theory of Reasoned Action, tracked substance use behavior, intentions, attitudes, perceived social norms, and beliefs from pregnancy to 12 months postpartum in a cohort of 255 US adolescents (mean age, 16 years). Documented was a p…
Daily data collection
This paper compares three methods for daily data collection to examine the co‐occurrence of intoxication and unsafe sex at the incident level. Sexually transmitted disease clinic clients and sexually active college students were randomized to complete either written daily diaries, daily telephone interviews they initiated, or daily telephone interviews initiated by project staff, for a period of 4 weeks. The three methods are compared on rates of…
HIV/STD Risk Factors for Women with Violent Male Partners
Psychological Distress and Substance Use by Adolescent Mothers
This study examines associations between psychological distress and alcohol and drug use across the first five years of raising a child and parenting quality at child age six for 185 adolescent mothers. Overall, alcohol and other drug use in this sample was relatively low, but drug use was associated with more mother-reported unrealistic expectations of child behavior and more attributions of child intent to annoy parent by misbehaving. Maternal …
Daily data collection of sexual and other health‐related behaviors
Is daily data collection of sexual and other health‐related behaviors reactive? This question was examined by exploring trends in daily reports of sexual intercourse, condom use, drinking, smoking, and vegetable and fruit consumption over a 2‐month period. The trends were examined for evidence of fatigue effects and socially desirable responding. The effects of data collection method and gender were also examined. Results from a hierarchical line…
Does “High = High Risk”? An Event-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Substance Use and Unprotected Anal Sex Among Gay and Bisexual Men
Teen Sexual Behavior
We examined the utility of the theory of reasoned action for predicting sexual intercourse among teenagers and determined whether it holds for both genders and for those with and without prior sexual experience. The data include 749 students who were in 9th-11th grades when the predictors were measured and in 10th-12th grades when sexual intercourse was assessed. About half (53%) were girls, about half (48%) were non-Hispanic European Americans. …
The influence of psychosocial difficulties on women's attrition in an HIV/STD prevention program
We examined attrition from an HIV/STD group counselling intervention in two ways: quantitative analyses of the entire sample (n=287) and structured interviews of a subset of 30 women with low attendance. In the interviews, the most common reasons for low attendance were time conflicts and enrolling primarily to obtain the monetary incentives given for completing research questionnaires. Latent class statistical analysis of the full sample identif…
Adolescent Drinking and Sex
Heterosexually Active Men's Beliefs About Methods For Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Heterosexually Active Men's Beliefs About Methods For Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Encouraging safer-sex practices among heterosexually active men will require addressing their beliefs and perceived norms about alternative methods of preventing STDs
Life Course Heterogeneity in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood Among Adolescent Mothers
Longitudinal data were used to examine pathways taken by 227 adolescent mothers during the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Latent profile analysis identified three sub‐groups of adolescent mothers from 6 months to 6 years postpartum: a problem‐prone profile (15%), a psychologically vulnerable profile (42%), and a normative profile (43%). Group membership was related to long‐term adult outcomes (adult status markers, health‐risk and de…
Analysis with Missing Data in Social Work Research
Missing data occur in virtually all research. Traditional methods for handling missing data, like complete case analyses and mean substitution, can result in the loss of statistical power and biased estimates of parameters. Recent statistical and software developments have provided readily accessible methods of handling missing data that provide more statistical power and less biased estimates than in the past. This paper compares newer technique…
Condom use, frequency of sex, and number of partners
Sexual health research often relies on single risk indicators. However multi-variable composites may better capture the underlying construct of risk-taking. Latent Profile Analysis identified subgroups based on condom use consistency, partner numbers, and sex frequency among 605 adolescents. Three profiles were identified for each of grades 8 to 10 (Condom Users, Few Partners, and Risk-Takers) and 4 in grades 11 and 12 (Condom Users, One Partner …
Drinking and Condom use
Agreement of Daily Diary and Retrospective Measures of Condom Use
The Reliability and Validity of a Group-Based Measure of Adolescents' Friendship Closeness
Objective: Six items were administered to a multiethnic sample of 435 middle school—age participants in a group-delivered safer sex intervention to determine their reliability and validity. Method: Exploratory analyses were followed by confirmatory factor analyses, and then correlations of scale scores with theoretically related variables were computed. Results: Findings favored a unidimensional scale with high internal consistency (with as few a…
The Opposite of Sex? Adolescents’ Thoughts About Abstinence and Sex, and Their Sexual Behavior
Youth do not consider abstinence and sexual activity opposing constructs, and solely instilling positive abstinence attitudes and intentions in youth may not have robust effects in preventing sexual activity
Marriage Following Adolescent Parenthood
Research suggests that adult marriages confer benefits. Does marriage following a teenage birth confer benefits similar to those observed for adults? Longitudinal data from a community sample of 235 young women who gave birth as unmarried adolescents were used to examine this question. Controlling for socioeconomic status and preexisting "benefits," we found that marriage conferred small, though statistically significant, benefits with regard to …
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