TY - JOUR
T1 - Influences of acute alcohol consumption, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation on women’s relationship and sex appraisals and unprotected sex intentions
AU - Jacques-Tiura, Angela J.
AU - Norris, Jeanette
AU - Kiekel, Preston A.
AU - Davis, Kelly Cue
AU - Zawacki, Tina
AU - Morrison, Diane M.
AU - George, William H.
AU - Abdallah, Devon Alisa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2015/3/26
Y1 - 2015/3/26
N2 - Guided by the cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making (Norris, Masters, & Zawacki, 2004. Cognitive mediation of women’s sexual decision making: The influence of alcohol, contextual factors, and background variables. Annual Review of Sex Research, 15, 258–296), we examined female social drinkers’ (N = 162) in-the-moment risky sexual decision making by testing how individual differences (relationship motivation) and situational factors (alcohol consumption and sexual precedence conditions) influenced cognitive appraisals and sexual outcomes in a hypothetical sexual scenario. In a path model, acute intoxication, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation interactively predicted primary relationship appraisals and independently predicted primary sex appraisals. Primary appraisals predicted secondary appraisals related to relationship and unprotected sex, which predicted unprotected sex intentions. Sexual precedence directly increased unprotected sex intentions. Findings support the cognitive mediation model and suggest that sexual risk reduction interventions should address alcohol, relationship, sexual, and cognitive factors.
AB - Guided by the cognitive mediation model of sexual decision making (Norris, Masters, & Zawacki, 2004. Cognitive mediation of women’s sexual decision making: The influence of alcohol, contextual factors, and background variables. Annual Review of Sex Research, 15, 258–296), we examined female social drinkers’ (N = 162) in-the-moment risky sexual decision making by testing how individual differences (relationship motivation) and situational factors (alcohol consumption and sexual precedence conditions) influenced cognitive appraisals and sexual outcomes in a hypothetical sexual scenario. In a path model, acute intoxication, sexual precedence, and relationship motivation interactively predicted primary relationship appraisals and independently predicted primary sex appraisals. Primary appraisals predicted secondary appraisals related to relationship and unprotected sex, which predicted unprotected sex intentions. Sexual precedence directly increased unprotected sex intentions. Findings support the cognitive mediation model and suggest that sexual risk reduction interventions should address alcohol, relationship, sexual, and cognitive factors.
KW - Alcohol
KW - cognitive appraisals
KW - relationships
KW - sexual precedence
KW - sexual risk taking
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U2 - 10.1177/0265407514528101
DO - 10.1177/0265407514528101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84923838805
SN - 0265-4075
VL - 32
SP - 197
EP - 221
JO - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
JF - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
IS - 2
ER -