Safer sexual practices among African American women: intersectional socialisation and sexual assertiveness

Scholars have posited that childhood socialisation experiences may play a key role in influencing behaviours and attitudes that contribute to the acquisition of HIV. This study examined the links between past ethnic-racial and gender socialisation, sexual assertiveness and the safe sexual practices...

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Published in:Culture, health & sexuality health & sexuality, 2018-06, Vol.20 (6), p.673-689
Main Authors: Brown, Danice L., Blackmon, Sha'Kema, Shiflett, Alexandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American women
African Americans
Assertiveness
Childhood
Childhood factors
College students
Ethnicity
Gender
Gender roles
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Intersectionality
Profiles
race
Safe sexual practices
Sexual behavior
sexual health
Sexual practices
Socialization
Women
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Summary:Scholars have posited that childhood socialisation experiences may play a key role in influencing behaviours and attitudes that contribute to the acquisition of HIV. This study examined the links between past ethnic-racial and gender socialisation, sexual assertiveness and the safe sexual practices of African American college women utilising a cluster analytic approach. After identifying separate racial-gender and ethnic-gender socialisation profiles, results indicated that ethnic-gender socialisation cluster profiles were directly associated with sexual assertiveness and safer sex behaviour. Greater levels of ethnic socialisation and low traditional gender role socialisation were found to be associated with greater sexual assertiveness and safer sex behaviour. Further analysis showed that sexual assertiveness mediated the links between the identified ethnic-gender socialisation profiles and safer sex behaviour. Implications for policy and programme development are discussed.
ISSN:1369-1058
1464-5351
DOI:10.1080/13691058.2017.1370132