From Your POV: Gender and Assertiveness as Predictors of Sexual Health Behaviors
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Start Date
9-4-2024 12:00 AM
Description
How far would you go (or not go) to protect yourself from risky sexual behaviors? What influence do gender and socialized protective skills like self-assertiveness have on these decisions? This study is a follow-up to an original study exploring psychological correlates to sexual health and gender discrepancies in sexual health behaviors and outcomes. Previous research indicates that the inclusion of self-reporting questions provide a measure of efficacy for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (CYOA) activities, like the one utilized in this research. SPSS data analysis was supportive of the main hypothesis that the CYOA risk index would be positively correlated to self-reported risky behaviors. In addition, this study replicated the same differences across genders as observed in the first study and identified further differentiation in self-reported behaviors. Implications of the negative correlation between relational assertiveness and both the risk index and self-reported risky behaviors are significant across gender and age.
Recommended Citation
Sweaney, Zoë, "From Your POV: Gender and Assertiveness as Predictors of Sexual Health Behaviors" (2024). 2024 Student Academic Showcase. 4.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/src_2024/Oral_Presentations/Session1/4
From Your POV: Gender and Assertiveness as Predictors of Sexual Health Behaviors
How far would you go (or not go) to protect yourself from risky sexual behaviors? What influence do gender and socialized protective skills like self-assertiveness have on these decisions? This study is a follow-up to an original study exploring psychological correlates to sexual health and gender discrepancies in sexual health behaviors and outcomes. Previous research indicates that the inclusion of self-reporting questions provide a measure of efficacy for Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (CYOA) activities, like the one utilized in this research. SPSS data analysis was supportive of the main hypothesis that the CYOA risk index would be positively correlated to self-reported risky behaviors. In addition, this study replicated the same differences across genders as observed in the first study and identified further differentiation in self-reported behaviors. Implications of the negative correlation between relational assertiveness and both the risk index and self-reported risky behaviors are significant across gender and age.