Norris Jeanette, Kiekel Preston A, Morrison Diane M, Davis Kelly Cue, George William H, Zawacki Tina, Abdallah Devon Alisa, Jacques-Tiura Angela J, Stappenbeck Cynthia A
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington.
Psychol Women Q. 2013 Jun 1;37(2):209-223. doi: 10.1177/0361684313481763.
Understanding how women judge male partners' sexual risk is important to developing risk reduction programs. Applying a cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making, our study investigated effects of alcohol consumption (control, low dose, high dose) and relationship type (disrupted vs. new) on women's risk judgments of a male sexual partner in three sexual risk conditions (low, unknown, high). After random assignment to an experimental condition, 328 participants projected themselves into a story depicting a sexual interaction. The story was paused to assess primary appraisals of sexual and relationship potential and secondary appraisals of pleasure, health, and relationship concerns, followed by sexual risk judgments. In all risk conditions, alcohol and disrupted relationship increased sexual potential whereas disrupted relationship increased relationship potential in the low- and high-risk conditions. In the unknown-risk condition, women in the no-alcohol, new relationship condition had the lowest primary sexual appraisals. In all conditions, sexual appraisals predicted all secondary appraisals, but primary relationship appraisals predicted only secondary relationship appraisals. Secondary health appraisals led to increased risk judgments whereas relationship appraisals predicted lower risk judgments. Possible intervention points include helping women to re-evaluate their safety beliefs about past partners, as well as to develop behavioral strategies for decreasing hazardous drinking.
了解女性如何评判男性伴侣的性风险对于制定风险降低计划至关重要。运用性决策的认知中介模型，我们的研究调查了饮酒量（对照、低剂量、高剂量）和关系类型（破裂关系与新关系）在三种性风险状况（低、未知、高）下对女性对男性性伴侣风险判断的影响。在随机分配到实验条件后，328名参与者设想自己置身于一个描述性互动的故事中。故事暂停以评估对性和关系潜力的初步评估以及对愉悦、健康和关系担忧的二次评估，随后进行性风险判断。在所有风险状况下，酒精和破裂关系会增加性潜力，而在低风险和高风险状况下，破裂关系会增加关系潜力。在未知风险状况下，处于无酒精、新关系条件的女性初步性评估最低。在所有状况下，性评估预测了所有二次评估，但初步关系评估仅预测了二次关系评估。二次健康评估导致风险判断增加，而关系评估预测风险判断降低。可能的干预点包括帮助女性重新评估她们对过去伴侣的安全信念，以及制定减少有害饮酒的行为策略。
