Retention of contraceptive and Aids information in the classroom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10205221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meg Gerrard (Iowa State University, corresponding author), Theresa J Reis (Iowa State University) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-323 |
| Publication date | 1989-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Sex Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4499 • E-ISSN: 1559-8519 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00224498909551518 |
| OpenAlex | W1985516474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
Two well‐cited studies (Fisher, 1980; Schwartz, 1973) have suggested that people with negative emotional orientations toward sexuality (i.e., “erotophobia” or “sex guilt”) have difficulty learning contraceptive information. However, a recent laboratory study (Goldfarb, Gerrard, Gibbons, & Plante, 1988) has raised doubts about this conclusion by demonstrating that erotophobic women can learn contraceptive information if they are exposed to it. The current study was designed to further clarify the relationship between emotional orientation toward sex and ability to learn sexually relevant material. Specifically, it compared pretest and post‐test knowledge of contraception and AIDS in erotophobic and erotophilic students in a university class on human reproduction. While the results indicated that male erotophobics initially knew less, there were no knowledge differences between males and females or erotophobics and erotophilics at the end of the course. Thus, these results support the conclusion that erotophobics are capable of learning sexual material if they are exposed to it. The implications of these results for educational strategies for decreasing unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are discussed
Developmental psychology · Family planning · Human sexuality · Population · Research methodology · Sex education · Sexual orientation · Sexually active · Sociology · Test (biology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Changing Aids-risk behavior
Personality Dispositions as Mediators of Sexual Responses
Risky sexual behavior in college students
The effect of a “safer sex” film as mediated by erotophobia and gender on attitudes toward condoms
Adolescents' contact with sexuality in mainstream media
The assessment of sexual practices relevant to the transmission of Aids
A Test of Major Assumptions About Behavior Change
The development and multitrait-multimethod matrix analysis of three measures of three aspects of guilt.
Sex guilt and premarital sexual experiences of college students.
Measurement of guilt in females by self-report inventories.
Erotophobia‐erotophilia as a dimension of personality
Adolescents, Sex and Contraception
Prevention of unwanted pregnancy
Sex Differences, Sex Experience, Sex Guilt, and Explicitly Sexual Films 1
Sex guilt and sex myths in college men and women
Psychological and situation‐specific correlates of contraceptive behavior among university women
Attitudes toward sex, arousal, and the retention of contraceptive information
Effects of sex guilt, repression, sexual "arousability," and sexual experience on female sexual arousal during erotica and fantasy
Self-regulated exposure to erotica, recall errors, and subjective reactions as a function of erotophobia and Type A coronary-prone behavior
Sexual Attitudes and Contraception Among Females Across Five College Samples
Predicting male and female contraceptive behavior
Sex, sex guilt, and contraceptive use revisited
Sex, sex guilt, and contraceptive use
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2006 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |