Ambiguity of monogamy as a safer-sex goal among single, pregnant, inner-city women

Monogamy by whose definition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4775604
AutoresPaula J Britton (John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA), Oneida H Levine (Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, USA), Anita P Jackson (Kent State University), Stevan E Hobfoll (0000-0003-4136-0929, Kent State University), James B Shepherd (Kent State University), Justin P Lavin (Akron City Hospital, USA)
Ano1998
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas227-232
Data de publicação1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135910539800300206
PMID22021361
OpenAlexW2046563046
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas24

We examined the ambiguity of monogamy as a safer-sex goal in a sample of young, inner- city women ( N = 447), of whom 58 percent were African- American and 42 percent European-American. It was our premise that women may be misperceiving and underestimating their risk due to differences in their definition and beliefs about monogamy, and thus are not changing their behavior. When compared to long-term monogamous women (self-reporting one partner in the past year), serially monogamous women (reporting two or more partners in the past year) perceived themselves at greater risk but did not report more frequent use of condoms. It is possible that a suggestion of monogamy may be subject to multiple interpretations and thus could be providing women with a false sense of safety. Risk reduction should be defined in specific behavioral terms

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