Sexual Victimization, Alcohol Intoxication, Sexual-Emotional Responding, and Sexual Risk in Heavy Episodic Drinking Women.
This study used an experimental paradigm to investigate the roles of sexual victimization history and alcohol intoxication in young women's sexual-emotional responding and sexual risk taking. A nonclinical community sample of 436 young women, with both an instance of heavy episodic drinking and some...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 645 - 659 |
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May2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=95865824&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 95865824 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00040002 ASX jtl: Archives of Sexual Behavior issn: 00040002 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2014 vid: 43 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 95865824 10.1007/s10508-013-0143-8 ppf: 645 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 481KB tig: atl: Sexual Victimization, Alcohol Intoxication, Sexual-Emotional Responding, and Sexual Risk in Heavy Episodic Drinking Women. aug: au: George, William Davis, Kelly Masters, N. Jacques-Tiura, Angela Heiman, Julia Norris, Jeanette Gilmore, Amanda Nguyen, Hong Kajumulo, Kelly Otto, Jacqueline Andrasik, Michele affil: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 USA School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle USA Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington USA Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle USA su: Sexual abuse victims Alcoholic intoxication Emotions Sexual assault Sexual excitement Unsafe sex HIV infection risk factors sug: subj: Sexual abuse victims Alcoholic intoxication Emotions Sexual assault Sexual excitement Unsafe sex HIV infection risk factors keyword: Affect Alcohol Child sexual abuse Sexual risk taking Affect Alcohol Child sexual abuse Sexual risk taking ab: This study used an experimental paradigm to investigate the roles of sexual victimization history and alcohol intoxication in young women's sexual-emotional responding and sexual risk taking. A nonclinical community sample of 436 young women, with both an instance of heavy episodic drinking and some HIV/STI risk exposure in the past year, completed childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and adolescent/adult sexual assault (ASA) measures. A majority of them reported CSA and/or ASA, including rape and attempted rape. After random assignment to a high alcohol dose (.10 %) or control condition, participants read and projected themselves into an eroticized scenario of a sexual encounter involving a new partner. As the story protagonist, each participant rated her positive mood and her sexual arousal, sensation, and desire, and then indicated her likelihood of engaging in unprotected sex. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that ASA and alcohol were directly associated with heightened risk taking, and alcohol's effects were partially mediated by positive mood and sexual desire. ASA was associated with attenuated sexual-emotional responding and resulted in diminished risk taking via this suppression. These are the first findings indicating that, compared to non-victimized counterparts, sexually victimized women respond differently in alcohol-involved sexual encounters in terms of sexual-emotional responding and risk-taking intentions. Implications include assessing victimization history and drinking among women seeking treatment for either concern, particularly women at risk for HIV, and alerting them to ways their histories and behavior may combine to exacerbate their sexual risks. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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