Safer Sex Practice Among Female Chinese College Students and Its Antecedents: A Culture-Centered Approach

Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses

“…For participant demographics, 16 studies included both cis-gender women and men in their samples. Over half of the studies focused exclusively on heterosexual participants and/or had more female participants than male participants, one study included mixed cis-gender women and sexual and gender minority samples (Rubinsky & Cooke-Jackson, 2018), 2 included individuals identifying as heterosexual or a sexual and gender minority in their samples (Knobloch & Theiss, 2011;McManus & Lucas, 2018), and 5 studies focused solely on women (Cornaccione & Smith, 2017;Curran et al, 2016;Francis et al, 2021;Li et al, 2018;Mou et al, 2020). Additionally, only one study did not include participants' sexual orientation in their samples (Lui et al, 2021).…”

“…Additional studies that took a theory-driven approach to answer their hypotheses and questions about sexual communication were communication theory of identity (Rubinsky & Cooke-Jackson, 2018), congruence hypothesis (Nan, 2012), ecological model (Albritton et al, 2014), family communication patterns and affectionate exchange theory (Horan et al, 2018), integrative model of behavioral predictions and theory of gender and power (Francis et al, 2021), information-motivationbehavioral skills model (Mou et al, 2020), indirect effects model (High & Solomon, 2016), prospect theory (Nan et al, 2019), relational uncertainty (Knobloch & Theiss, 2011), social skills deficit hypothesis (Curran et al, 2016), socioemotional theory (Liu et al, 2021), and theory of planned behavior (Simms & Byers, 2013).…”

“…The majority (29.2%) of the studies within this review examined social support (Brisini et al, 2022;Burleson et al, 2011;Cornaccione & Smith, 2017;High and Solomon, 2016;Holmstrom et al, 2015;Holmstrom et al, 2021;Shebib et al, 2020), sex/sexual behaviors (e.g., condom use) (Francis et al, 2021), sexual risk communication (Albrittion et al, 2021;Curran et al, 2016;Horan et al, 2018), safer sex communication (Mou et al, 2020), Information management (Kuang & Kettings, 2011;McManus, 2018), and language use/(un) scripted sex communication (Li et al, 2018). Additional studies focused on conceptualizations of sex and sexual health (Rubinsky & Cooke-Jackson, 2018), community-level perceptions regarding HPV vaccination (Nan et al, 2019), and longitudinal effects on relationship talk (Knobloch & Theiss, 2011).…”

“…Given the various ways in which sexual communication research has been operationalized, we identified salient factors that re-occurred across the studies. Specifically, studies focused social skills (Li et al, 2018;Nan et al, 2019), gendered-based messages (Mou et al, 2020), relational support (Burleson et al, 2011), self-efficacy (High & Solomon, 2018), and difficult sex topics (McManus & Lucas, 2018).…”