Brief report: Sexual sensation seeking and its relationship to risky sexual behaviour among African‐American adolescent females

Spitalnick, Joshua S.; DiClemente, Ralph J.; Wingood, Gina M.; Crosby, Richard A.; Milhausen, Robin R.; Sales, jessica; McCarty, Frances; Rose, Eve; Younge, Sinead N.

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2006.10.002

Cited by 76 publications

(66 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition, prior studies have included mixed samples and usually did not control for ethnic differences. Unfortunately, fewer studies have examined the relationship between SSS and risky sex among heterosexual youth and especially among those who are female (Gullette & Lyons, 2005;Spitalnick et al, 2007). More importantly, there is a dearth of studies which have examined the relationship between SSS and risky sex using prospective data (Kalichman et al, 1994(Kalichman et al, , 1996McCoul & Haslam, 2001).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, SSS as well as STI risk behaviors are thought to increase during the period of adolescence through young adulthood. Although SSS is generally considered a personality trait (DiClemente et al, 2010;Kalichman et al, 1994;Spitalnick et al, 2007), the expression of such behaviors might increase during adolescence when youth have more autonomy. Education is also likely to be another potential confounder given that more highly educated females might have greater control of their lives and subsequently may demonstrate more relational power during sexual encounters .…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, females who are employed and have a job may have more to protect in terms of "personal and future assets" and may demonstrate lower rates of SSS and risky sex . Finally, perceived negative peer norms have been empirically and theoretically identified as a significant confounder of sexual sensation seeking and STI risks (DiClemente, Salazar, & Crosby, 2007;Kalichman et al, 1994;Spitalnick et al, 2007) such that high risk takers may tend to cluster together by seeking out persons with similar dispositions.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Sexual Sensation Seeking and STI-Related Risk Factors Among African American Females

Voisin

Tan

DiClemente

2013

AIDS Education and Prevention

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sexual sensation seeking has been correlated with STI-related risk factors in numerous cross sectional studies. However, no current studies have examined whether sexual sensation seeking is longitudinally related to a broad spectrum of STI-related factors such as consistent condom use, number of sexual partners, frequency of partner sexual communication, self-efficacy to refuse sex, and fear of condom negotiation. We explored these relationships over a 12-month period among a sample of 715 African American females attending three STI clinics in Georgia that were recruited into a larger randomized clinic intervention study. Utilizing A-CASI technology to assess all self-reported measures and employing general estimation equations while controlling for age, peer norms, school enrollment and employment, major results indicated that higher sexual sensation seeking predicted lower percent of condom use in the last 14 and 60 days, lower consistent condom use and a higher number of lifetime sexual partners. Additionally, higher sexual sensation seeking predicted lower partner sexual communication, diminished self-efficacy to refuse sex, and a higher fear of condom negotiation. Findings suggest that STI/HIV prevention/intervention programs should assess for and target sexual sensation seeking behaviors in such efforts.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Sexual Sensation Seeking and STI-Related Risk Factors Among African American Females

Voisin

Tan

DiClemente

2013

AIDS Education and Prevention

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Otro factor en el que se ha profundizado por su posible efecto en la asunción del riesgo es la búsqueda de sensaciones. Los jóvenes con alto nivel de búsqueda de sensaciones sexuales tienden a implicarse en mayor medida en relaciones sexuales sin protección y su historial de parejas sexuales es más extenso (spitalnick et al, 2007;Teva y Bermúdez, 2011). Estudios como el de Grov, Parsons y Bimbi (2010) encuentran alto nivel de búsque-da de sensaciones sexuales en los no heterosexuales y lo relacionan con el riesgo sexual atribuido a este colectivo.…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

¿Existen diferencias en riesgo sexual entre adolescentes heterosexuales y no heterosexuales? [Are there differences in sexual risk between heterosexual and non-heterosexual adolescents?]

2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…In other words, high sensation-seekers are inclined to seek more stimuli or novel experiences in their lives. These studies have concluded that sensation-seeking is a stable personality trait capable of predicting behaviour (Desrichard & Denarie, 2005;Galloway & Lopez, 1999;Gullette & Lyons, 2006;Martin et al, 2002;Spitalnick et al, 2006;Weisskirch & Murphy, 2004b).…”

Section: Sensation-seeking Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

Hsu¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Traditionally, sun, sea, and sand are the major reasons why tourists travel, however, in postmodern tourism, tourism products are no longer restricted by these types of natural resources. In order to extend the tourism life cycle and to attract more inbound tourists from overseas, more and more niche markets are developing. One such market that has been highlighted recently is food tourism. Over the past two decades, food tourism is emerging as an area of practical interest for both the host country and tourists as food is an inevitable experience at the travel destination.Food, unlike other natural resources can be provided year-round by utilizing local ingredients.For destination managers there is a need to develop a sense of regional distinctiveness and to maintain the local cultural traditions of their regions. For tourists, food provides the tourists with a novel experience and the chance to become more deeply involved in the local culture and traditions.Accordingly, because of the benefits of food tourism, it has also created interest among scholars to investigate in greater depth. However, even though the study of tourism is increasing, research issues and topics are still somewhat limited. At this stage, there is still a lack of research regarding the tourist's traditional food consumption behaviour. In redressing this omission, this study examines consumer choice behaviour of traditional Taiwanese foods. The specific objectives of this study are to: firstly, explore the food choice behaviour in relation to traditional food; secondly, to examine the impact of personality traits on tourists' traditional food choice behaviour. After a review of the literature, the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was selected to help explain tourists' traditional food buying behaviour. This theory of TPB was used as it explained human's behaviour from the perspective of the attitude-behaviour relationship and allows the researcher to conduct empirically based research. Furthermore, personality traits have been regarded as an important factor that influences people's food choice behaviour. Therefore, in order to examine the influence of food tourism, two personality traits, food neophobia and sensation-seeking have been examined in this study.A quantitative research study design was adopted which was based on the postpostivism paradigm. A pilot survey was conducted in Australia involving 149 respondents to confirm the iii validity and reliability of the six scales used in the pilot study. As a result, the final questionnaire consisted of a total of 44 items in six different scales and two open-ended questions. The final survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews in Taiwan, with Caucasian tourists using a convenience sampling design. This resulted in 389 completed questionnaires. SPSS version 21 and AMOS version 21 were employed to analyse the numeric data and to test the hypotheses.Statistical techniques used with the pilot survey data included item analysis, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis. Fo...

show abstract

Brief report: Sexual sensation seeking and its relationship to risky sexual behaviour among African‐American adolescent females

Cited by 76 publications

References 18 publications

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Sexual Sensation Seeking and STI-Related Risk Factors Among African American Females

A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Sexual Sensation Seeking and STI-Related Risk Factors Among African American Females

¿Existen diferencias en riesgo sexual entre adolescentes heterosexuales y no heterosexuales? [Are there differences in sexual risk between heterosexual and non-heterosexual adolescents?]

Food tourism: consumer behaviour in relation to traditional food

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About