Relationship Types and Contraceptive Use Within Young Adult Dating Relationships

Manlove, Jennifer; Welti, Kate; Wildsmith, Elizabeth; Barry, Megan

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“…Following other work in this area 28 , we believe that this may reflect the inherent challenges and control issues that emerge in the dyadic nature of the practical negotiating of another person’s condom use versus one’s own, which typifies female versus male condom use. Arguably, this may also represent adolescent females’ transition to other forms of protection, particularly in higher intimacy relationships 29 .…”

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A Question of Love and Trust? The Role of Relationship Factors in Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

Ewing

Bryan

2015

Journal of Developmental &Amp; Behavioral Pediatrics

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Objective While representing only 25% of the sexually active population, 50% of all new STI infections occur among young people, mostly due to inconsistent condom use. Critically, the majority of adolescent sexual activity takes place in the context of romantic relationships, thus it is important to understand how relationship factors may influence decision-making about the use, or not, of protection. Method We utilized a mixed method approach to investigate the extent to which relationship length, degree of trust or love in the relationship, and frequency of intercourse influence both perceptions of the probability of condom use and self-reported condom use in the context of relationships among a diverse sample of high risk adolescents (ages 12–19). Results Participants were least likely to use condoms if they were in relationships with high trust/love and high frequency of intercourse. Importantly, sexual experience status was a strong moderator of primary effects. Conclusion The perspective of motivated cognition provides a useful theoretical framework to better understand adolescent decision-making about condom use, particularly for sexually experienced youth.

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A Question of Love and Trust? The Role of Relationship Factors in Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

Ewing

Bryan

2015

Journal of Developmental &Amp; Behavioral Pediatrics

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“…Hooking up includes a continuum of physical behaviors including kissing and genital stimulation (in addition to oral, anal, and vaginal sexual intercourse), and choosing not to engage in penile-vaginal penetration is perhaps one way to attempt to avoid pregnancy. Research suggests that the most common method of pregnancy prevention during penile-vaginal intercourse during casual sex is condom use (Manlove et al 2014), but use of highly effective contraception or dualmethod use occurs as well (Walsh et al 2014).…”

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“…Fielder et al's (2013) longitudinal study of first year college students suggested that hookup behavior predicted the acquisition of STIs. Perception of risk of acquiring STIs varies based on the type of casual sex (e.g., hook-up versus FWB) (Manlove et al 2014;Pollack et al 2013) and type of physical contact (e.g. oral sex versus vaginal intercourse) (Downing-Matibag and Geisinger 2009;Pollack et al 2013).…”

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“…Weaver et al (2011) noted that a few participants indicated that condoms were more important for one-night stands or hook-ups than for friends with benefits relationships. Similarly, Manlove et al (2014), in their study using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Rounds 6-9 (2002-2005), established two types of shortterm relationships based on levels of intimacy and commitment, short-term casual relationships and short-term rosy outlooks. Couples in casual relationships had higher levels of condom use (33 %) and lower levels of hormonal method use (18 %) and were less likely to use hormonal methods versus nothing, or to use dual methods rather than a condom alone when compared to the short-term/rosy outlooks group.…”

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Casual Sex: Integrating Social, Behavioral, and Sexual Health Research

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Seibold‐Simpson

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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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“…Studies of sexually active teenagers find that relationship characteristics, such as age at first sexual encounter [4], relationship type and length [5], level of intimacy [5], communication [6], and partner homogamy [7] are associated with contraceptive use. One national study found that young women’s odds of ever having used contraception in first sexual relationships increased with the relationship duration and decreased if they had not known their partner before dating him.…”

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Effects of relationship context on contraceptive use among young women

2016

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Objectives To understand how relationship status influences contraceptive use among young people. Study Design Data were collected as part of a longitudinal study on hormonal contraception among unmarried adolescent and young women who wanted to avoid pregnancy for at least one year, recruited at family planning clinics in the San Francisco Bay area. Follow-up surveys were completed at 3, 6, and 12 months. Longitudinal analysis was used to examine whether relationship characteristics, including type and length of sexual relationship are associated with current use of effective contraception. Results Among women with a partner at baseline, 78%, 70%, and 61% had the same partner at 3, 6, and 12 months follow up, respectively. Women in casual relationships were less likely to use effective contraceptive methods, compared to women in consistent relationships (AOR=0.67, p<0.01). Women in new relationships (0–3 months) were less likely to use effective contraceptive methods (AOR=0.60, p<0.001) compared to women in relationships more than one year in length. Younger women (AOR=0.76, p<0.05), black women (AOR=0.67, p<0.05) and Latina women (AOR=0.73, p<0.05) were also significantly less likely to use effective contraception. These effects remained even after controlling for condom use. Conclusions Relationship type and length are independently significantly associated with current effective contraceptive use among adolescent and young women. Women in casual relationships and new relationships were significantly less likely to use effective contraceptive methods. Implications Family planning providers should discuss women’s relationship context and association with contraceptive use in order to help women think of contraception as a long term personal strategy. Since relationship status affects contraceptive use, providers and programs that aim to reduce unintended pregnancy can consider strategies to create a paradigm shift around contraceptive use that focuses on the woman’s reproductive goals, current life stage, and life goals.

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Relationship Types and Contraceptive Use Within Young Adult Dating Relationships

Cited by 43 publications

References 33 publications

A Question of Love and Trust? The Role of Relationship Factors in Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

A Question of Love and Trust? The Role of Relationship Factors in Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

Casual Sex: Integrating Social, Behavioral, and Sexual Health Research

Effects of relationship context on contraceptive use among young women

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