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Sexual Arousal and Implicit and Explicit Determinants of Condom Use Intentions

Being sexually aroused may be an important risk factor contributing to sexual decision making. Dual-process cognitive models, such as the reflective–impulsive model of Strack and Deutsch (2004), could be used to explain the effect of sexual arousal on intentions to use a condom. In this study, we in...

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Autores principales: Wolfs, Kenny, Bos, Arjan E. R., Mevissen, Fraukje E. F., Peters, Gjalt-Jorn Y., van Lankveld, Jacques J. D. M.
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Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30003438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1257-9
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author Wolfs, Kenny
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Mevissen, Fraukje E. F.
Peters, Gjalt-Jorn Y.
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description Being sexually aroused may be an important risk factor contributing to sexual decision making. Dual-process cognitive models, such as the reflective–impulsive model of Strack and Deutsch (2004), could be used to explain the effect of sexual arousal on intentions to use a condom. In this study, we investigated whether explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use can predict intentions to use a condom when participants are sexually aroused and not aroused. In a within-subjects experimental design, male participants (N = 27) watched both a neutral and an erotic movie clip in counterbalanced order. After each clip, participants completed a questionnaire assessing their intentions to use a condom and explicit condom attitudes, followed by a wanting Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 2003) and a liking IAT to assess their implicit attitudes to unsafe sex. In concordance with the reflective–impulsive model, we found that when participants were not sexually aroused, their intentions to use a condom were solely predicted by their explicit attitudes. However, when they were sexually aroused, intentions to use a condom were predicted by both explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use.
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spelling pubmed-63732322019-03-01 Sexual Arousal and Implicit and Explicit Determinants of Condom Use Intentions Wolfs, Kenny Bos, Arjan E. R. Mevissen, Fraukje E. F. Peters, Gjalt-Jorn Y. van Lankveld, Jacques J. D. M. Arch Sex Behav Original Paper Being sexually aroused may be an important risk factor contributing to sexual decision making. Dual-process cognitive models, such as the reflective–impulsive model of Strack and Deutsch (2004), could be used to explain the effect of sexual arousal on intentions to use a condom. In this study, we investigated whether explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use can predict intentions to use a condom when participants are sexually aroused and not aroused. In a within-subjects experimental design, male participants (N = 27) watched both a neutral and an erotic movie clip in counterbalanced order. After each clip, participants completed a questionnaire assessing their intentions to use a condom and explicit condom attitudes, followed by a wanting Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 2003) and a liking IAT to assess their implicit attitudes to unsafe sex. In concordance with the reflective–impulsive model, we found that when participants were not sexually aroused, their intentions to use a condom were solely predicted by their explicit attitudes. However, when they were sexually aroused, intentions to use a condom were predicted by both explicit and implicit attitudes toward condom use. Springer US 2018-07-12 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6373232/ /pubmed/30003438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1257-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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