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Correlates of Risky Sexual Behavior in the People's Republic of China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Correlates of Risky Sexual Behavior in the People's Republic of China.
Author:	Spjut, Kersti A.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017
Description:	82 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: B.
Notes:	Adviser: Scott R. Braithwaite.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-03B(E).
Subject:	Clinical psychology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10606646
ISBN:	9780355260861

Correlates of Risky Sexual Behavior in the People's Republic of China.
Spjut, Kersti A.

Correlates of Risky Sexual Behavior in the People's Republic of China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 82 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-03(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brigham Young University, 2017.

Risky sexual behaviors, or behaviors with the risk of an adverse health outcome, are on the rise. Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are also on the rise. Research suggests that several variables are closely related to human sexual behavior, namely sexual attitudes, HIV-transmission knowledge, and gender. Individuals with more permissive sexual attitudes tend to engage in riskier sexual behaviors. Studies examining the relationship between sexual knowledge and risky sexual behavior show both positive and negative associations. Although risky behaviors can occur between partners of any gender, the present study focuses on heterosexual relationships. The present study uses data from a nationally representative sample of 3,737 adults living in the People's Republic of China (PRC) who completed a computerized interview about their sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. I used structural equation modeling (SEM) to test a mediation model with permissive sexual attitudes as a mediator between HIV-transmission knowledge and four risky sexual behaviors: number of sexual partners, extradyadic sex, age of first intercourse, and paying for sex. I found significant indirect effects of attitudes on every risky sexual behavior other than age of first intercourse. There was a significant gender moderation such that attitudes predicted stronger effects on behavior for women than for men. These findings have implications for future efforts to create interventions and prevention programs for risky sexual behavior. Although the present study has some limitations, it contributes to a gap in the literature by replicating a Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior (KAB) model of risky sexual behavior a large, representative sample of adults across the PRC.

ISBN: 9780355260861Subjects--Topical Terms:

328102
Clinical psychology.

Correlates of Risky Sexual Behavior in the People's Republic of China.
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