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Relationship Trajectories and Psychological Well-Being Among Sexual Minority Youth
(Springer, 2010)
Dating in adolescence plays an integral part in the development of sexual and social identities. This process is particularly salient for sexual minority youth who face additional obstacles to their identity formation due ...
Children's Attitudes Toward People With AIDS in Puerto Rico: Exploring Stigma Through Drawings and Stories
(Sage, 2007)
AIDS stigma refers to prejudice and discrimination directed at people or groups perceived to have HIV/AIDS (Herek, 1999). Although AIDS stigma has been found in adolescent and adult populations, few researchers have explored ...
Do Parents and peers matter? A propective socio-ecological examination of substance use and sexual risk among African American Youth
(Elsevier, 2011)
We examined the direct contribution of parent and peer risk and promotive factors on youth condom use trajectories, in addition to the indirect influence of these factors via youth's substance use over four years in a ...
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: An Evaluation of its Possible Use and Relative Risk
(Springer, 2009)
We estimated the HIV risk reduction that could be attained by using a rapid HIV home test (HT) to screen sexual partners versus using condoms in different proportions of anal intercourse (AI) occasions among men who have ...
Sexual Prejudice Among Puerto Rican Young Adults
(Routledge, 2008)
Sexual prejudice is linked to hate crimes, mental health, risk behaviors, and stigma. Few studies have examined sexual prejudice among Latinos. We surveyed 382 college students in Puerto Rico. A structural model tested ...
Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy Among Men Who Engage in "Bareback Sex"
(Springer, 2011)
Abstract An ethnically diverse sample of 120 mostly gay-identified men who engaged in "bareback" intercourse was recruited via the Internet in New York City. By study design three quarters of participants were HIV-uninfected ...
Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now: Romantic and Casual Partner-Seeking Online Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
(Springer, 2011)
Dating is a normative behavior for youth, yet few studies have examined the relationship between romantic partner-seeking and sexual behavior among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). This omission is most notable ...