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- 1. Sexual Attitudes PredictingSexual Behavior: Does Identity Confusion Play a Role? Authors: Dr. Manfred van Dulmen, Shannon Claxton, Elizabeth Baker, Haylee DeLuca, Tom Harrington, and Amanda Lamadanie Department of Psychological Sciences Kent State University
- 2. Attitudes predict behavior– nothing new.
- 3. What do weknow about attitudes and behavior?” • Triandis’ Theory of Interpersonal Behavior : A variety of factors influence one’s attitudes, which in turn predict behavior (e.g., Triandis, 1977, 1989). • Empirical findings show an association between sexual attitudes and casual sex (Levinson, Jaccard, & Beamer 1995; Maticka Tyndale,‐ Herold, & Mewhinney, 1998).
- 4. CSREs, Emerging Adulthood,Identity Confusion • Casual sexual relationships and experiences (CSREs): sexual behavior occurring outside of the context of a committed relationship (Claxton & van Dulmen, 2013). • Approximately 60-80% of North American college students have engaged in a CSRE (Garcia, Reiber, Massey, & Merriwehter, 2012).
- 5. CSREs, Emerging Adulthood,Identity Confusion • A time period between 18-29 years of age • This period is characterized by identity development and exploration (Arnett, 2000). • Exploration in relationships
- 6. CSREs, Emerging Adulthood,Identity Confusion Identity confusion status – whether or not one has confusion with identity – might impact the relationship between attitudes and behavior.
- 7. Current Study Purpose IntendedBenefits • To explore the relationship between sexual attitudes and engaging in a CSRE • To see if identity confusion moderates the relationship between sexual attitudes and engaging in CSREs. • Insight into who is more likely to engage in CSREs and under what conditions this behavior occurs • Informing both practitioners and individuals • Adding to the current scientific understanding of these phenomena
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- 9. Participants • Sample size:n = 383. • Age range: 17.97 to 29.98 years • Mean age: 23.02 • The majority of the sample was Caucasian (80.94 %), female (66.45%), and heterosexual (88.25 %).
- 10. Procedure Baseline: Sexual attitudes Identity confusion Demographics 1week Daily Diary - Friday Sexual behavior Daily Diary - Saturday Sexual behavior Daily Diary - Thursday Sexual behavior Daily Diary - Sunday Sexual behavior • Two waves of data from a larger study designed to examine CSREs around an alcohol-based event (Halloween).
- 11. Measures: Permissive SexualAttitudes • 10 item permissiveness subscale of the Brief Sexual Attitudes Questionnaire (Hendrick, Hendrick, & Reich, 2006). • Good internal consistency (α = .94).
- 12. Measures: Permissive SexualAttitudes Example items (rated on a 5-point Likert scale): • “Casual sex is acceptable” • “It is possible to enjoy sex with a person and not like that person very much.” • “It is okay for sex to be just good physical release.”
- 13. Measures: Identity Confusion •12 item identity confusion subscale of the Erikson’s Psycho-Social Index (Rosenthal, Gurney, & Moore, 1981). • Good internal consistency (α = .88).
- 14. Measures: Identity Confusion Exampleitems (rated on a 5-point Likert scale): • “I change my opinion of myself a lot.” • “I know what kind of person I am.” • “The important things in life are clear to me.”
- 15. Measures: Sexual Behavior •One dichotomous item: “Did you engage in any sexual behaviors?” This item was asked daily as a part of the daily diary portion of the study. • Examples of sexual behavior: Oral sex, anal sex, threesome, kissing, vaginal intercourse
- 17. Results • Results fromthe logistic regression indicated that permissive sexual attitudes increased the probability of engaging in a CSRE (B = 0.43, SE = 0.11, eB = 1.54, p = 0.0001). • The odds of engaging in a CSRE increased by a factor of 1.54 (54%) for every 1 point increase (5-point scale) in permissive sexual attitudes.
- 18. Findings in Termsof Our Hypotheses • There will be a positive relationship between the permissiveness of sexual attitudes and engaging in a CSRE. We were able to support this claim. • Identity confusion will moderate the relationship between sexual attitudes and engagement in a CSRE. We were unable to support this claim .
- 19. Interpretation and FutureDirections
- 20. Discussion: Interpretation and FutureDirections • We found a relationship between sexual attitudes and sexual behavior, which confirms past research findings. • Identity confusion did not predict, or moderate, this relationship.
- 21. Discussion: Interpretation and FutureDirections • External factors may carry more weight than internal ones, such as identity confusion. • Research has shown that the perception of peer behavior is more likely to affect one’s decision to engage in a CSRE than one’s personal norms (Maticka Tyndale, Herold, &‐ Mewhinney1998).
- 22. Discussion: Interpretation and FutureDirections Future research should continue to examine additional factors that may impact the relationship between sexual attitudes and engaging in CSREs.
- 23. Questions? Reflections? (We lovequestions)
- 24. Thank you foryour kind attention
Editor's Notes
- #2 Before jumping into the next slide to talk about attitudes/behaviors…give a VERY brief overview of your entire talk. Maybe say “As you can tell by our title, today we will be discussing the relationship between sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors, and whether or not identity confusion impacts this relationship (a little repetitive, but it will set the audience up).
- #3 I would combine slides 2-4 and title it “What do we know about attitudes and behavior?” then go on to talk about Trandis’ theory of attitudes predicting behavior. Then going on to talk about sexual attitudes predicting sexual behavior (narrowing down). So you could have slides 2-4 all as one.
- #5 I would provide a definition first (which you have in your transcript…just making sure you know to talk about them, pause, then move on). Then move on to say they are prevalent. You can take out “research indicates” and just put the statistic with the citation.
- #6 Again, you can just shorten this up a little.
- #10 This too is too “texty”. Don’t need the “we utilized data from a larger study”…you can just say that. Also, for range, just put the range and mean (i.e., 17.97-29.98 years, Mage = 23.-2) without the actual text.
- #12 Include an example item and the reliability information
- #14 Include an example item and the reliability information
- #16 Just say the “this was asked every day” part, no need to have it on the slide
- #18 Last bullet you can just say (doesn’t need to be written)