John Delamater
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620050 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Delamater |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Delamater |
| ASSINATURA | DELAMATER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3735-8335 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 460 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Lies, Damned Lies, and Survey Self-Reports? Identity as a Cause of Measurement Bias
Explanations of error in survey self-reports have focused on social desirability: that respondents answer questions about normative behavior to appear prosocial to interviewers. However, this paradigm fails to explain why bias occurs even in self-administered modes like mail and web surveys. We offer an alternative explanation rooted in identity theory that focuses on measurement directiveness as a cause of bias. After completing questions about …
Measurement Directiveness as a Cause of Response Bias
Extant research comparing survey self-reports of normative behavior to direct observations and time diary data have yielded evidence of extensive measurement bias. However, most of this research program has relied on observational data, comparing independent samples from the same target population, rather than comparing survey self-reports to a criterion measure for individual respondents. This research addresses the next step using data from two…
Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities
Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities
Social Desirability Bias in Self-reports of Physical Activity
Handbook of Social Psychology
Past-Year Sexual Inactivity Among Older Married Persons and Their Partners
Family scholars have focused on the onset of sexual activity early in the life course, but little is known about the cessation of sexual activity in relationships in later life. We use event-history analysis techniques and logistic regression to identify the correlates of sexual inactivity among older married men and women. We analyze data for 1,502 married people from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, a nationally representati…
Sexual Expression in Later Life
In the past decade, researchers have begun to study the sexual functioning of typical older persons. This review summarizes literature on the sexuality of men and women over age 50 as researched by social and health scientists. Research on the relationship of biological factors (changes accompanying aging), health (physical, mental, and medication use), psychological factors (attitudes, information about sex), relationship factors (status, satisf…
Sexual Frequency Decline From Midlife to Later Life
Results provide evidence for gendered experiences in the sexual life course
Sex for Sale
Sexual Behavior in Later Life
The authors conclude that the nature of sexual expression in later life reflects the interplay of body, mind, and social context
Handbook of Social Psychology
Handbook of Social Psychology (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)
Social Psychology is an important interdisciplinary field within Sociology. Psychology, focusing on processes that occur inside the individual and Sociology, focusing on social collectives and social institutions, come together in social psychology to explore the interface between the two fields. Social Psychology is the study of how both intra-individual factors and social interaction influence and are influenced by individual behavior. The core…
Introduction to the special section
Introduction to the special section: Abstracts from the world congress of sexology 2005." , 43(1), p. 1
Context counts
An individual's first sexual experience is a highly salient and meaningful event, with potential to shape sexual scripts and the affect associated with sexual expression. Using data from the National Health and Social Life Survey, we tested abstinence-only advocates; assertions that premarital sex results in psychological and physical harm such as sexual dysfunction, sex guilt, poor health, sexually transmitted diseases, and poor life satisfactio…
Sexual desire in later life
The has been relatively little research on sexuality in later life, particularly among persons over 60 years of age. The existing literature consists of studies of small samples, much of it from a biomedical perspective. This literature suggests that age, hormone levels, specific illnesses, and various medications negatively affect sexual functioning in older persons. The study reports results from a survey of a large sample (N=1,384) of persons …
Introduction to invited papers
Human sexual development
Empirical research by scholars from several disciplines provides the basis for an outline of the process of sexual development. The process of achieving sexual maturity begins at conception and ends at death. It is influenced by biological maturation/aging, by progression through the socially-defined stages of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life, and by the person s relationships with others, including family members, intimate partn…
Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition
In this paper, with the use of linear regressions to investigate how relationship dissolution affects sexual attitudes and behaviors, the authors address the stereotype that newly single people seek multiple sexual partners. Although the newly single people surveyed did obtain new sexual partners, the rate at which they acquired new partners did not support the stereotype. Specifically, men with custody of their children seemed oriented toward fi…
In memory of William Simon
Sexuality and the dual‐earner couple, part II
This article reports results from two data sets testing predictions that a couple's sexual relationship suffers if the wife is employed, particularly if she is employed full time or high full time. A multiple‐theory framework was used, fusing the scarcity hypothesis, the enhancement hypothesis, and identity theory. The last suggests that an important individual difference variable, spouse role salience, should be related to a couples sexual funct…
Gender and Job Status as Contextual Cues for the Interpretation of Facial Expression of Emotion
Introduction to special articles
Essentialism vs. social constructionism in the study of human sexuality
According to classical essentialism, there are underlying true forms or essences, there is discontinuity between different forms rather than continuous variation, and these true forms are constant over time. Modern essentialism consists of a belief that certain phenomena are natural, inevitable, and biologically determined. We consider sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, genetic research, brain research, and endocrine research as examples of e…
Increasing our Understanding of Women’s Sexuality
Essentialism vs. social constructionism in the study of human sexuality
According to classical essentialism, there are underlying true forms or essences, there is discontinuity between different forms rather than continuous variation, and these true forms are constant over time. Modern essentialism consists of a belief that certain phenomena are natural, inevitable, and biologically determined. We consider sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, genetic research, brain research, and endocrine research as examples of e…
Sexual desire in later life
The has been relatively little research on sexuality in later life, particularly among persons over 60 years of age. The existing literature consists of studies of small samples, much of it from a biomedical perspective. This literature suggests that age, hormone levels, specific illnesses, and various medications negatively affect sexual functioning in older persons. The study reports results from a survey of a large sample (N=1,384) of persons …
Response Effects in Sex Surveys
Journal Article Response Effects in Sex Surveys Get access Weldon T. Johnson, Weldon T. Johnson Weldon T. Johnson is Assistant Professor, and John D. DeLamater is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. The authors acknowledge the substantial contributions of Charles E. Susmilch and Patricia L. MacCorquodale to the analysis of the data reported here. This is a revised version of a paper presented to the annual meeti…
The Social Control of Sexuality
While potential for sexual behavior is provided by human biology cross-cultural research has made it clear that sociocultural factors determine how that potential is expressed (Davenport 1977). Thus each society constraints the age gender legal and kin relationships between sexual actors as well as setting limits on sites of behavior and connections between organs (Gagnon & Simon 1973: 4). The nature of these constraints and their influence on in…
On the nature of national involvement
Peer Reviewed
Lies, Damned Lies, and Survey Self-Reports? Identity as a Cause of Measurement Bias
Explanations of error in survey self-reports have focused on social desirability: that respondents answer questions about normative behavior to appear prosocial to interviewers. However, this paradigm fails to explain why bias occurs even in self-administered modes like mail and web surveys. We offer an alternative explanation rooted in identity theory that focuses on measurement directiveness as a cause of bias. After completing questions about …
Sexual Frequency Decline From Midlife to Later Life
Results provide evidence for gendered experiences in the sexual life course
Sexual Behavior in Later Life
The authors conclude that the nature of sexual expression in later life reflects the interplay of body, mind, and social context
Sexual decision making by inner city black adolescent males
This research was designed to illuminate the cognitive and emotional bases of the sexual decisions made by young Black men. It was guided by the assumption that the Black male's understanding and expression of his sexuality reflects a socially constructed interpretation of who he is. Specifically, we believe that sexual decision making is guided by sexual scripts. Focus groups were conducted with 27 Black young men ages 15 to 19. Analyses of the …
Social Desirability Bias in Self-reports of Physical Activity
Sexuality during pregnancy and the year postpartum
We report the sexual patterns of 570 women and 550 of their husbands/partners, not recruited specifically for sex research, at the fifth month of pregnancy (T1), 1 month postpartum (T2), 4 months postpartum (T3), and 12 months postpartum (T4). Although approximately 90% of couples engaged in sexual intercourse at T1, T3, and T4, only about 19% did at T2. On average, couples resumed intercourse around seven weeks postpartum. At T2 and T3, breastfe…
Context counts
An individual's first sexual experience is a highly salient and meaningful event, with potential to shape sexual scripts and the affect associated with sexual expression. Using data from the National Health and Social Life Survey, we tested abstinence-only advocates; assertions that premarital sex results in psychological and physical harm such as sexual dysfunction, sex guilt, poor health, sexually transmitted diseases, and poor life satisfactio…
Past-Year Sexual Inactivity Among Older Married Persons and Their Partners
Family scholars have focused on the onset of sexual activity early in the life course, but little is known about the cessation of sexual activity in relationships in later life. We use event-history analysis techniques and logistic regression to identify the correlates of sexual inactivity among older married men and women. We analyze data for 1,502 married people from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, a nationally representati…
Relationship Dissolution as a Life Stage Transition
In this paper, with the use of linear regressions to investigate how relationship dissolution affects sexual attitudes and behaviors, the authors address the stereotype that newly single people seek multiple sexual partners. Although the newly single people surveyed did obtain new sexual partners, the rate at which they acquired new partners did not support the stereotype. Specifically, men with custody of their children seemed oriented toward fi…
Premarital Contraceptive Use
Two models of contraceptive use among adolescents (18-23) are compared and measured for validity in an interview study of 237 single male and 212 single female students and 127 male and 179 female nonstudents. The Rains model suggests 4 stages a woman goes through in sexual development: 1) falling in love 2) dating one man exclusively 3) changing sexual standard so intercourse is acceptable for herself and 4) seeing herself as liable to engage in…
Human sexual development
Empirical research by scholars from several disciplines provides the basis for an outline of the process of sexual development. The process of achieving sexual maturity begins at conception and ends at death. It is influenced by biological maturation/aging, by progression through the socially-defined stages of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life, and by the person s relationships with others, including family members, intimate partn…
Gender and Job Status as Contextual Cues for the Interpretation of Facial Expression of Emotion
Methodological Issues in the Study of Premarital Sexuality
The value of existing literature on premarital sexual behavior is limited by both methodological problems in and the descriptive orientation of most past research in this area. Five methodological issues are identified: the terminology used (1) to refer to the two sexes and (2) to characterize the quality of personal relationships; the order of measures of (3) current relationships and current behavior, (4) personal and friends' sexual ideology; …
Self-Image and Premarital Sexuality
This paper is focused on the relationship between self-image and sexuality. It is suggested that self-image has several components: self-esteem, evaluation of self as social actor, evaluation of self as moral, and body image, or evaluation of one's physical attributes. Sexuality is viewed as comprised of both attitudinal and behavioral components. Measures of each were included in interviews with random samples of college students (N = 856) and n…
On the Nature of Deviance
This paper attempts a conceptual clarification of several issues surrounding sociological and social psychological analyses of deviant behavior. A basic distinction is made between individuals whose initial socialization is in terms of conventional norms and values, and those whose early socialization is based on deviant norms and values. The implications of this distinction for the manner in which initial deviant behavior occurs, the rewards and…
The Effects of Interview Schedule Variations On Reported Sexual Behavior
Discussions of survey research often assert that characteristics of the schedule affect the data obtained, particularly when the topic is "sensitive. " This research varied three aspects of an interview schedule designed to measure sexual behavior: (1) whether behavior was assessed by interviewer questions or a self-administered questionnaire; (2) the location of questions concerning sexual experience (at the middle or at the end of the interview…
On the Status of Women
Sexuality and the dual‐earner couple, part II
This article reports results from two data sets testing predictions that a couple's sexual relationship suffers if the wife is employed, particularly if she is employed full time or high full time. A multiple‐theory framework was used, fusing the scarcity hypothesis, the enhancement hypothesis, and identity theory. The last suggests that an important individual difference variable, spouse role salience, should be related to a couples sexual funct…
Measurement Directiveness as a Cause of Response Bias
Extant research comparing survey self-reports of normative behavior to direct observations and time diary data have yielded evidence of extensive measurement bias. However, most of this research program has relied on observational data, comparing independent samples from the same target population, rather than comparing survey self-reports to a criterion measure for individual respondents. This research addresses the next step using data from two…
Teaching Human Sexuality
John DeLamater, Janet Shibley Hyde, Elizabeth Rice Allgeier, Teaching Human Sexuality: Personalizing the Impersonal Lecture, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 4, Interpersonal and Interactional Aspects of Teaching (Oct., 1994), pp. 309-318
Conceptual orientations of contemporary small group theory
National Development from a Social Psychological Perspective
On the Nature of Deviance
This paper attempts a conceptual clarification of several issues surrounding sociological and social psychological analyses of deviant behavior. A basic distinction is made between individuals whose initial socialization is in terms of conventional norms and values, and those whose early socialization is based on deviant norms and values. The implications of this distinction for the manner in which initial deviant behavior occurs, the rewards and…
On the nature of national involvement
Peer Reviewed
Disaffiliated Man
Deviance and Conformity
On the Status of Women
Adolescent Sexuality in Contemporary America
Methodological Issues in the Study of Premarital Sexuality
The value of existing literature on premarital sexual behavior is limited by both methodological problems in and the descriptive orientation of most past research in this area. Five methodological issues are identified: the terminology used (1) to refer to the two sexes and (2) to characterize the quality of personal relationships; the order of measures of (3) current relationships and current behavior, (4) personal and friends' sexual ideology; …
The Effects of Interview Schedule Variations On Reported Sexual Behavior
Discussions of survey research often assert that characteristics of the schedule affect the data obtained, particularly when the topic is "sensitive. " This research varied three aspects of an interview schedule designed to measure sexual behavior: (1) whether behavior was assessed by interviewer questions or a self-administered questionnaire; (2) the location of questions concerning sexual experience (at the middle or at the end of the interview…
The Study of Political Commitment
The Invisible Woman
Response Effects in Sex Surveys
Journal Article Response Effects in Sex Surveys Get access Weldon T. Johnson, Weldon T. Johnson Weldon T. Johnson is Assistant Professor, and John D. DeLamater is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. The authors acknowledge the substantial contributions of Charles E. Susmilch and Patricia L. MacCorquodale to the analysis of the data reported here. This is a revised version of a paper presented to the annual meeti…
Premarital Contraceptive Use
Two models of contraceptive use among adolescents (18-23) are compared and measured for validity in an interview study of 237 single male and 212 single female students and 127 male and 179 female nonstudents. The Rains model suggests 4 stages a woman goes through in sexual development: 1) falling in love 2) dating one man exclusively 3) changing sexual standard so intercourse is acceptable for herself and 4) seeing herself as liable to engage in…
Self-Image and Premarital Sexuality
This paper is focused on the relationship between self-image and sexuality. It is suggested that self-image has several components: self-esteem, evaluation of self as social actor, evaluation of self as moral, and body image, or evaluation of one's physical attributes. Sexuality is viewed as comprised of both attitudinal and behavioral components. Measures of each were included in interviews with random samples of college students (N = 856) and n…
Premarital Sexuality
The premarital sexual behavior of young adults was the subject of the research presented. Single men and women aged 18 to 23 both students and nonstudents were studied. Past research is reviewed. It is found to be limited in scope because the 2 major types of social influences are dealt with separately. The 2 types are the impact of society as a whole and of its major institutions and the influence of people with whom the individual interacts. A …
Patterns of Adolescent Sexuality
The Social Control of Sexuality
While potential for sexual behavior is provided by human biology cross-cultural research has made it clear that sociocultural factors determine how that potential is expressed (Davenport 1977). Thus each society constraints the age gender legal and kin relationships between sexual actors as well as setting limits on sites of behavior and connections between organs (Gagnon & Simon 1973: 4). The nature of these constraints and their influence on in…
Teaching Human Sexuality
John DeLamater, Janet Shibley Hyde, Elizabeth Rice Allgeier, Teaching Human Sexuality: Personalizing the Impersonal Lecture, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 4, Interpersonal and Interactional Aspects of Teaching (Oct., 1994), pp. 309-318
Sexuality during pregnancy and the year postpartum
We report the sexual patterns of 570 women and 550 of their husbands/partners, not recruited specifically for sex research, at the fifth month of pregnancy (T1), 1 month postpartum (T2), 4 months postpartum (T3), and 12 months postpartum (T4). Although approximately 90% of couples engaged in sexual intercourse at T1, T3, and T4, only about 19% did at T2. On average, couples resumed intercourse around seven weeks postpartum. At T2 and T3, breastfe…
Sexual decision making by inner city black adolescent males
This research was designed to illuminate the cognitive and emotional bases of the sexual decisions made by young Black men. It was guided by the assumption that the Black male's understanding and expression of his sexuality reflects a socially constructed interpretation of who he is. Specifically, we believe that sexual decision making is guided by sexual scripts. Focus groups were conducted with 27 Black young men ages 15 to 19. Analyses of the …
Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships
Essentialism vs. social constructionism in the study of human sexuality
According to classical essentialism, there are underlying true forms or essences, there is discontinuity between different forms rather than continuous variation, and these true forms are constant over time. Modern essentialism consists of a belief that certain phenomena are natural, inevitable, and biologically determined. We consider sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, genetic research, brain research, and endocrine research as examples of e…
Introduction to special articles
Gender and Job Status as Contextual Cues for the Interpretation of Facial Expression of Emotion
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