Affect and Condom Use in a Daily Diary Study of Men Who Have Sex with Men

dc.contributor.advisorMohr, Jonathan Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorSarno, Elissa Louiseen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-25T05:32:10Z
dc.date.available2015-06-25T05:32:10Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractMen who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionally affected by HIV. Although some theoretical models created to explain why individuals engage in risky sexual behavior contain an affective component, there has been relatively little focus on the influence of affect on sexual risk-taking. The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between affect and condom use in men who have sex with men (MSM) in an archival dataset from a survey of users of a popular sex-oriented website. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze daily diary data from 2,871 MSM. At the within-person level, positive affect was positively related to risk-taking, whereas negative affect was negatively related to risk-taking. However, these results were qualified by interactions of trait affect and relationship to sex partner. These findings suggest that interventions focused on emotional regulation may have the potential to reduce sexual risk taking among MSM.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2JS76
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16406
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.titleAffect and Condom Use in a Daily Diary Study of Men Who Have Sex with Menen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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