At-Risk Populations

Link studied between psychological factors, women's HIV sexual risk behaviors

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 2nd, 2004

Rutgers State University, New Jersey, researchers examined how the psychological factors of sexual imposition, dyadic trust and sensation seeking are associated with HIV sexual risk behaviors in a group of 257 young urban women.

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis applied to data obtained from the women via Audio Computer-Assisted Self-interview (ACASI) "revealed that sexual imposition, dyadic trust and sensation seeking explained 18.3% of the variance in sexual risk behavior," reported R. Jones and colleagues.

"Although sexual imposition was positively related to sexual risk, pressure to satisfy a male partner sexually was more common than...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-08-02)

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