Beyond the Sexual Monad

Combining Complementary Cognitions to Explain and Predict Unsafe Sex among Gay Men

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18960729
AutoresJohn Vincke (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium, autor correspondente), Ralph Bolton (Pomona College)
Ano1997
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas38-46
Data de publicação1997-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.56.1.937778m37600ph12
OpenAlexW2039027135
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas19

Successful HIV prevention depends on delivering messages appropriate for specific, targeted audiences. In this article we document the existence of three naturally-occurring clusters of Flemish gay men based on their patterns of participation in eight forms of sexual behavior. MANOVA and discriminant analysis indicate that the clusters differ significantly in the assessment of both the pleasures and dangers of unprotected penetrative sexual practices. The complementarity of group differences underscores the critical importance of the dyadic dynamics in the etiology of risk taking with respect to the potential transmission of HIV during a sexual encounter. This dyadic approach to understanding risky behavior is contrasted with the individualistic paradigms which currently dominate the field of AIDS prevention research. We find that most of the social and psychological variables used in previous models lose their explanatory power when they are analyzed using groups based on sexual style rather than on the etic dimension of riskiness. The implications of the findings for the design of HIV interventions are discussed

Condom · Developmental psychology · Emic and etic · Explanatory power · Flemish · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Multivariate analysis of variance · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Unsafe Sex · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Community Health and Development · Health Policy Implementation Science · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology