Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20740, USA.
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2020 Apr;49(3):999-1015. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-1444-3. Epub 2019 Sep 24.
One of the major goals of couple-based HIV prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa is to reduce outside sex partners, known as sexual concurrency. This cross-sectional study examined sexual concurrency at the couple-level and differentiated couples based on whether neither, one, or both partners engaged in sexual concurrency over the past 6 months. Individual predictors (alcohol use and lifetime history of physical or sexual trauma) and relationship predictors (mistrust, relationship inequity, relationship satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction) were used as predictors of couple-level sexual concurrency. A quantitative investigation using path analysis was carried out with data collected from 286 South African heterosexual couples. Results showed that alcohol use for both sexes, relationship dissatisfaction for women, and mistrust among women were predictive of different types of sexual concurrency. Findings suggest that consideration of the experiences and behavior of both partners may be useful in understanding different reasons for engagement in sexual concurrency.
在撒哈拉以南非洲,以伴侣为基础的艾滋病毒预防项目的主要目标之一是减少婚外性伴侣,即性并行。本横断面研究考察了夫妇层面的性并行,并根据过去 6 个月内双方均未、一方或双方是否存在性并行,将夫妇区分开来。个体预测因素(饮酒和身体或性创伤的终身史)和关系预测因素(不信任、关系不平等、关系满意度和性满意度)被用作夫妇层面性并行的预测因素。本研究使用路径分析对从 286 对南非异性恋夫妇收集的数据进行了定量调查。结果表明,两性的饮酒行为、女性的关系不满以及女性之间的不信任是不同类型性并行的预测因素。研究结果表明,考虑双方的经历和行为可能有助于理解发生性并行的不同原因。