Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Treatment Center for People with a Mild Intellectual Disability, AltraCura, 6161 DJ, Geleen, The Netherlands.
Arch Sex Behav. 2019 Feb;48(2):469-480. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1257-9. Epub 2018 Jul 12.
Being sexually aroused may be an important risk factor contributing to sexual decision making. Dual-process cognitive models, such as the reflective-impulsive model of Strack and Deutsch (2004), could be used to explain the effect of sexual arousal on intentions to use a condom. In this study, we investigated whether explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use can predict intentions to use a condom when participants are sexually aroused and not aroused. In a within-subjects experimental design, male participants (N = 27) watched both a neutral and an erotic movie clip in counterbalanced order. After each clip, participants completed a questionnaire assessing their intentions to use a condom and explicit condom attitudes, followed by a wanting Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 2003) and a liking IAT to assess their implicit attitudes to unsafe sex. In concordance with the reflective-impulsive model, we found that when participants were not sexually aroused, their intentions to use a condom were solely predicted by their explicit attitudes. However, when they were sexually aroused, intentions to use a condom were predicted by both explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use.
性唤起可能是导致性决策的一个重要风险因素。双加工认知模型，如 Strack 和 Deutsch（2004）的反思-冲动模型，可以用来解释性唤起对使用避孕套意愿的影响。在这项研究中，我们调查了当参与者被性唤起和没有被性唤起时，他们对使用避孕套的明确和隐含态度是否可以预测使用避孕套的意愿。在一个被试内的实验设计中，男性参与者（N=27）以平衡的顺序观看了中性和色情电影片段。在每个片段之后，参与者完成了一个评估他们使用避孕套意愿和明确避孕套态度的问卷，然后是一个想要的内隐联想测验（IAT；Greenwald 等人，2003）和一个喜欢的 IAT，以评估他们对不安全性行为的隐含态度。与反思-冲动模型一致，我们发现，当参与者没有被性唤起时，他们使用避孕套的意愿仅由他们的明确态度预测。然而，当他们被性唤起时，使用避孕套的意愿既受明确态度又受隐含态度的预测。
