Valerie Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 81074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prevalence of Serious Psychological Distress and Mental Health Treatment in a National Sample of Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Ibâḍî Reformism in Twentieth-Century Algeria: The Tafsîr of Shaykh Ibrâhîm Bayyûḍ
Shaykh Ibrâhîm b. ‘Umar Bayyûḍ of Wâdî Mzâb (1899-1981), leader of Ibâḍî reformism in Algeria after the death of Muḥammad b. Yûsuf Aṭfiyyash (1820-1914), delivered a public commentary on the Qur’an from 1935-1980, which was recorded beginning with Sûra 17:70. Shaykh Bayyûḍ claimed to follow the goals and methodology of Muḥammad ‘Abduh and Rashîd Riḍâ’s Tafsîr al-Manâr. This article analyzes Shaykh Bayyûḍ’s commentary in comparison to, on the one …
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
Islam, Human Rights and Interfaith Relations: Some Contemporary Egyptian Perspectives
This paper explores current discussions and debates on Islam, human rights and interfaith relations in Egypt through an analysis of the public statements and writings of various religious scholars and spiritual teachers and the textbooks used to teach Islam in public secondary schools. It is well known that Islamist perspectives have become mainstream in Egypt, a largely devout and socially conservative country that is also the source of most of …
A 33-Year Follow-up of Narcotics Addicts
BACKGROUND: This study examined longitudinal patterns of heroin use, other substance use, health, mental health, employment, criminal involvement, and mortality among heroin addicts. METHODS: The sample was composed of 581 male heroin addicts admitted to the California Civil Addict Program (CAP) during the years 1962 through 1964; CAP was a compulsory drug treatment program for heroin-dependent criminal offenders. This 33-year follow-up study upd…
Islam and Modernity
Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics
A night with Venus: Partner assessments and high-risk sexual encounters
This study examined partner assessments and high-risk sexual encounters among STD clinic patients. Participants were 42 English-speaking attendees of a public STD clinic in Southern California with ages ranging between 18 and 60. Twelve focus groups were conducted. Qualitative data from the focus groups were analyzed using grounded theory. The analysis resulted in delineating five temporally-ordered stages of causal sexual encounters. Participant…
Fidelity Management: African-American Adolescents' Attempts to Control the Sexual Behavior of their Partners
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex: A Model Based on African American Adolescent Accounts
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
Reasons for having sex and sexual risk-taking: A study of heterosexual male STD clinic patients
Individuals report a variety of reasons for having sex. Understanding these reasons can improve HIV and STD prevention efforts because they may constitute an important component in the aetiology of sexual risk-taking behaviours. Relationships between self-reported reasons for having sex and frequency of participation in sexual practices among 146 heterosexual men recruited from public STD clinics in Southern California were examined. Using a self…
Patterns of sexual risk-taking among heterosexual men
Heterosexual male STD (sexually transmitted disease) clinic patients (N=146) were classified by cluster analysis into four groups based on their self-reported frequency of participation in eleven sexual behaviors that varied in risk for contracting an STD or HIV. Significant differences among the four groups were found in their participation in some sexual practices that were not used in the clustering, and men in the four groups differed signifi…
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Fidelity Management: African-American Adolescents' Attempts to Control the Sexual Behavior of their Partners
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex: A Model Based on African American Adolescent Accounts
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Patterns of sexual risk-taking among heterosexual men
Heterosexual male STD (sexually transmitted disease) clinic patients (N=146) were classified by cluster analysis into four groups based on their self-reported frequency of participation in eleven sexual behaviors that varied in risk for contracting an STD or HIV. Significant differences among the four groups were found in their participation in some sexual practices that were not used in the clustering, and men in the four groups differed signifi…
Reasons for having sex and sexual risk-taking: A study of heterosexual male STD clinic patients
Individuals report a variety of reasons for having sex. Understanding these reasons can improve HIV and STD prevention efforts because they may constitute an important component in the aetiology of sexual risk-taking behaviours. Relationships between self-reported reasons for having sex and frequency of participation in sexual practices among 146 heterosexual men recruited from public STD clinics in Southern California were examined. Using a self…
Fidelity Management: African-American Adolescents' Attempts to Control the Sexual Behavior of their Partners
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex: A Model Based on African American Adolescent Accounts
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
A night with Venus: Partner assessments and high-risk sexual encounters
This study examined partner assessments and high-risk sexual encounters among STD clinic patients. Participants were 42 English-speaking attendees of a public STD clinic in Southern California with ages ranging between 18 and 60. Twelve focus groups were conducted. Qualitative data from the focus groups were analyzed using grounded theory. The analysis resulted in delineating five temporally-ordered stages of causal sexual encounters. Participant…
A 33-Year Follow-up of Narcotics Addicts
BACKGROUND: This study examined longitudinal patterns of heroin use, other substance use, health, mental health, employment, criminal involvement, and mortality among heroin addicts. METHODS: The sample was composed of 581 male heroin addicts admitted to the California Civil Addict Program (CAP) during the years 1962 through 1964; CAP was a compulsory drug treatment program for heroin-dependent criminal offenders. This 33-year follow-up study upd…
Islam and Modernity
Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics
Islam, Human Rights and Interfaith Relations: Some Contemporary Egyptian Perspectives
This paper explores current discussions and debates on Islam, human rights and interfaith relations in Egypt through an analysis of the public statements and writings of various religious scholars and spiritual teachers and the textbooks used to teach Islam in public secondary schools. It is well known that Islamist perspectives have become mainstream in Egypt, a largely devout and socially conservative country that is also the source of most of …
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults: Implications for HIV/STI Prevention
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
Ibâḍî Reformism in Twentieth-Century Algeria: The Tafsîr of Shaykh Ibrâhîm Bayyûḍ
Shaykh Ibrâhîm b. ‘Umar Bayyûḍ of Wâdî Mzâb (1899-1981), leader of Ibâḍî reformism in Algeria after the death of Muḥammad b. Yûsuf Aṭfiyyash (1820-1914), delivered a public commentary on the Qur’an from 1935-1980, which was recorded beginning with Sûra 17:70. Shaykh Bayyûḍ claimed to follow the goals and methodology of Muḥammad ‘Abduh and Rashîd Riḍâ’s Tafsîr al-Manâr. This article analyzes Shaykh Bayyûḍ’s commentary in comparison to, on the one …
Prevalence of Serious Psychological Distress and Mental Health Treatment in a National Sample of Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Psychology (7 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Islam (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)