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Moilanen KL, Ni Y, Turiano NA. U.S. College Students' Sexual Risk Behaviors Before and During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic. J Sex Res 2023:1-17. [PMID: 37676778 PMCID: PMC10918033 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2246160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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The present study describes changes in young adults' sexual behaviors during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Latent class growth analyses (LCGAs) conducted with four waves of data collected between July 2019 to May 2020 in N = 775 college students (Mage = 18.61, SD = 0.33; 50.3% female, 90.2% White) revealed the presence of high- and low-risk classes in separate models for oral, vaginal, and anal sexual risk taking. As anticipated, vaginal and oral risk taking declined in spring 2020. Membership in high-risk trajectories was attributable to high COVID-19-related financial problems, early sexual debut, low self-control, and being in a romantic relationship. Other COVID-19 factors and demographic control variables were not linked to trajectory membership. Thus, while many young adults' sexual risk taking changed during the early pandemic, their perceptions of and experiences with COVID-19 were not predictive of sexual risk trajectory membership.
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- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University
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Crockett LJ, Moilanen KL, Cartwright ML. Pathways From Individual Characteristics to Subjective Consequences of Sex: The Mediating Role of Risky Sexual Encounters. Int J Sex Health 2023; 35:230-247. [PMID: 38601009 PMCID: PMC10903652 DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2023.2204304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2024]
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Objectives: This study examined associations between young adults' psychological characteristics and psychosocial consequences of sex, and whether risky sexual encounters mediated these associations. Methods: College students (N = 265; Mage = 19.49) completed questionnaires concerning risky sexual relationships, behaviors, situations, and psychosocial consequences during their most recent encounter and over the last year. Results: Sexual restraint indirectly predicted positive consequences of the most recent encounter via risky sexual behaviors. Sexual restraint and permissiveness predicted positive and negative consequences over the past year via risky relationships. Conclusions: Psychological characteristics may influence the likelihood of risky sexual encounters, thereby influencing consequences.
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- Lisa J. Crockett
- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
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- Child Development and Family Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
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Fernández-Theoduloz G, Brunet N, Godoy JC, Steinberg L, López-Gómez A. Risk Sexual Behaviors in Uruguayan Adolescents: the Role of Self-Regulation and Sex-Gender. Trends in Psychol 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s43076-023-00284-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2023]
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Rodrigues DL, Balzarini RN, Zoppolat G, Slatcher R. Motives for Security and Sexual Activity Among Single Individuals at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Psychology & Sexuality 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2022.2100716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Thomas JA, Ditchman N, Beedle RB. The impact of knowledge, self-efficacy, and stigma on STI testing intention among college students. J Am Coll Health 2022; 70:1415-1425. [PMID: 32790582 DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1799808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Objective: Young people represent over half of the new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) each year in the United States. This study examined how STI knowledge, self-efficacy, and stigma impact STI testing intention among sexually active college students using path model analysis. Participants: Participants included 76 college students (74.1% undergraduate, Mage = 23.05). Method: Data were collected via online survey. Path analysis was conducted using SPSS AMOS, and MacKinnon's ab product approach in RMediation was used to test mediating effects. Results: The hypothesized path model fit the data well and the relationships between self-efficacy and knowledge, stigma, and STI testing intention were significant. Mediation analysis revealed significant indirect paths for knowledge and stigma on STI testing intention through self-efficacy. Conclusion: Findings suggest that college health providers may be able to increase the frequency of STI testing behavior by promoting strategies to increase students' self-efficacy.
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- J A Thomas
- Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Rodrigues DL. Regulatory focus and perceived safety with casual partners: implications for perceived risk and casual sex intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology & Sexuality 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2021.2018355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- David L. Rodrigues
- Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Iscte–Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIS-Iscte, Lisboa, Portugal
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Ahadzadeh AS, Ong FS, Wu SL, Deng R. Private Self-Consciousness and Self-Monitoring on Instagram: The Mediating Effect of Internal Locus of Control and Self-Concept. J Psychol 2021; 155:334-355. [PMID: 33705270 DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2021.1884035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Past studies examining the direct relationship between private self-consciousness and online self-presentation behavior have not met with much success. The aim of this study was to examine the direct relationship between private self-consciousness and self-monitoring as well as the indirect relationship between these two variables through the mediation of locus of control and self-concept among Instagram users. Besides investigating locus of control and self-concept independently, serial mediation of locus of control and self-concept in the relationship between private self-consciousness and self-monitoring was also examined. A sample of 309 university students was conveniently drawn from three private universities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Participants completed a survey that collected data on private self-consciousness, internal locus of control, self-concept, self-monitoring on Instagram and relevant demographic data. Results of this study showed that there is no direct relationship between private self-consciousness and self-monitoring on Instagram. Independently, locus of control was found to mediate the relationship between private self-consciousness and self-monitoring while self-concept did not. The serial-multiple mediation test supported the mediating role of locus of control and self-concept on this relationship. These indirect relationships contribute to our understanding of the underlying mechanism through which private self-consciousness influences self-monitoring on Instagram.
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Protogerou C, McHugh RK, Johnson BT. How best to reduce unhealthy risk-taking behaviours? A meta-review of evidence syntheses of interventions using self-regulation principles. Health Psychol Rev 2020; 14:86-115. [DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1707104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Cleo Protogerou
- School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (SSHA) and Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI), University of California, Merced, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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Murray DW, Rosanbalm K, Christopoulos C, Meyer AL. An Applied Contextual Model for Promoting Self-Regulation Enactment Across Development: Implications for Prevention, Public Health and Future Research. J Prim Prev 2019; 40:367-403. [PMID: 31372788 DOI: 10.1007/s10935-019-00556-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This theoretical paper presents a public health approach for promoting self-regulation across development that is based in cross-disciplinary theory and research. The self-regulation promotion model includes three key approaches that are each dependent on the relationship that children and youth have with caregivers: teaching self-regulation skills, building supportive environments, and providing co-regulation. This model extends the science of self-regulation insofar as it: (1) focuses on promoting wellbeing (not only reducing risks) across domains of functioning, (2) addresses self-regulation intervention across childhood and through young adulthood, (3) integrates multiple theories and applies them to intervention in meaningful ways, and (4) identifies specific strategies that can be used in natural developmental contexts and that address the social ecological environment as well as the individual child. We describe seven key principles that support the model including a description of self-regulation processes and implications for promoting self-regulation at each developmental stage. We end with broad implications for intervention, highlighting the relevance of the self-regulation promotion model for practitioners, policy makers, and prevention researchers.
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- Desiree W Murray
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 8185, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-8185, USA. .,The Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA.
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA
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- Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., USA
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Little is known about specific mechanisms linking self-regulation to sexual risk taking. The present study considered four possibilities in emerging adulthood: sexual self-restraint, consideration of future consequences, substance use, and romantic competence. Never-married young adults (N = 274), ages 18 to 24, responded to anonymous Internet surveys (60.2% female, 78.8% European American, 66.3% university students). The effects of self-regulation were primarily indirect but varied by sexual behavior, suggesting that high self-regulation limits sexual risk via high sexual self-restraint and low substance use. High regulation was linked to multiple sexual partners and high-risk practices risk via high romantic competence, high self-regulation was linked to multiple sexual partners and high risk practices.
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- Kristin L Moilanen
- a Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development , West Virginia University
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- b Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Counseling Psychology , West Virginia University
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Crandall A, Magnusson BM, Novilla MLB. Growth in Adolescent Self-Regulation and Impact on Sexual Risk-Taking: A Curve-of-Factors Analysis. J Youth Adolesc 2018; 47:793-806. [DOI: 10.1007/s10964-017-0706-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Moilanen KL, Manuel ML. Parenting, self-regulation and social competence with peers and romantic partners. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 2017; 49:46-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Carrier Emond F, Nolet K, Cyr G, Rouleau J, Gagnon J. L’impulsivité sexuelle et les comportements sexuels problématiques chez les adultes : vers des mesures comportementales spécifiques et innovatrices. Sexologies 2016; 25:184-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sexol.2015.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Carrier Emond F, Nolet K, Cyr G, Rouleau JL, Gagnon J. Sexual impulsivity and problematic sexual behaviors in adults: Towards innovative domain-specific behavioral measures. Sexologies 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sexol.2015.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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