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Sexual Socialization Experiences and Perceived Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young African American Women
Socialization is a process whereby people learn the norms and values of society. African American caregivers often engage in socialization processes...
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Increasing Opportunities for Healthy Sexual Socialization in LGBTQ+ People with IDD: The Role of LGBTQ+ Organizations and Community
In the current intersectionality-focused discourse within sexuality research, individuals existing at the convergence of intellectual and...
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Sexual Double Standards: Contributions of Sexual Socialization by Parents, Peers, and the Media
(Hetero)sexual double standards (SDS) entail that different sexual behaviors are appropriate for men and women. There is large variation in whether...
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Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types
The terms single and singlehood conflate marital (e.g. divorced, widowed, and never married) and relationship (e.g. partnered or not) statuses,...
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Learning About Sex from Different Sources: Implications for Sexual Attitudes, Sexual Knowledge, and Risky Sexual Behavior Among U.S. College Students
This exploratory cross-sectional study, guided by primary socialization theory, examined relations between four primary socialization agents of...
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Piecing Together Respectability: Black Women’s Reflections on Familial Socialization Messages
The politics of respectability continues to inform the messages that Black women receive from family members across a range of experiences, from...
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Growing Up Intersex: A Thematic Analysis of Intersex Emerging Adults’ Key Socialization Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence
Socialization experiences around having an intersex variation have lasting impacts on intersex individuals’ well-being. Understanding commonalities...
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Intergenerational Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Emotion Socialization
The experience of childhood maltreatment is associated with greater psychological difficulties in survivors of maltreatment and their later children....
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Multilevel Factors Associated with Unsupportive Emotion Socialization: An Examination of Child Maltreatment and its Sequelae
Purpose : Adults who have been maltreated as children are at risk for a variety of adverse sequalae that can have a negative impact on parents’...
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Military Sexual Violence: Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Hazing
Miliary sexual trauma (MST) is a pervasive issue throughout the US military. In this chapter, definitions of types of MST (i.e., sexual assault,...
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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence in Emerging Adulthood: Exploring Sexual Consent Attitudes as a Target for Sexual Coercion Prevention
While intimate partner violence is now recognized as a major societal and international issue, sexual violence between partners remains understudied...
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Listen to Black Women: The Power of Black Women’s Collective Sexual Wisdom About Strategies to Promote Sexual Pleasure and Reduce Sexual Pain
IntroductionBlack women’s collective wisdom has informed Black women’s sexual development for decades. Yet, empirical collective wisdom regarding...
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Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Dark Triad Traits, Sexual Excitation/Inhibition, and Sociosexuality
The present study sought to investigate sex and sexual orientation differences in several traits related to sexuality and sexual behavior. Examining...
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“Finding My Worth as a Sexual Being”: A Qualitative Gender Analysis of Sexual Self-Concept and Co** in Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is likely to have impacts on adult survivors’ sexuality, particularly on their sexual self-concept. However, little is...
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The Relational Nature of Gender, the Pervasiveness of Heteronormative Sexual Scripts, and the Impact on Sexual Pleasure
This study examined how gender shapes sexual interactions and pleasure outcomes. We highlight varying expectations people have in regard to sex by...
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Assisted Conception Socialization Self-Efficacy Among Israeli Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parent Families and its Association with Child Externalizing Problems
This questionnaire-based study compared 36 Israeli lesbian mother families ( n = 72 lesbian mothers) formed by donor insemination, 39 Israeli gay...
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Sexual harassment in sports: insights from female athletes in Pakistan
Sexual harassment stems from both sexual feelings and hostility toward the victim. In sports, this problem has been largely overlooked by researchers...
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Raising Resilient Black Women: A Study of Superwoman Mothering and Strength as a Form of Gendered Racial Socialization in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships
Mother-daughter relationships play a significant role in how Black women develop their self-concept. Yet, there are few studies exploring young Black...