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Long-Term Effects of Self-Control on Alcohol Use and Sexual Behavior among Urban Minority Young Women

机译:自我控制对城市少数民族年轻女性饮酒和性行为的长期影响

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High risk alcohol use and sexual behaviors peak in young adulthood and often occur in the same individuals. Alcohol use has been found to impair decision-making and contribute to high risk sexual activity. However, the association between alcohol use and risky sexual behavior may also reflect enduring individual differences in risk taking, sociability, self-control, and related variables. Both behaviors can serve similar functions related to recreation, interpersonal connection, and the pursuit of excitement or pleasure. The present study examined the extent to which high risk drinking and sexual behavior clustered together in a sample of urban minority young adult women, a demographic group at elevated risk for negative outcomes related to sexual health. We tested whether psychosocial functioning measured at the beginning of high school predicted classes of risk behaviors when girls were tracked longitudinally into young adulthood. Latent class analysis indicated three distinct profiles based on high risk drinking and sexual behavior (i.e., multiple sex partners) in young adulthood. The largest class (73% of the sample) reported low levels of risky drinking and sexual behavior. The next largest class (19%) reported high risk drinking and low risk sexual behavior, and the smallest class (8%) reported high levels of both behaviors. Compared to women from other racial/ethnic groups, black women were more likely to be categorized in the high risk drinking/low risk sex class. Multinomial logistic regression indicated that self-control in adolescence had a broad and enduring protective effect on risk behaviors eight years later and was associated with a greater probability of being in the low risk drinking/low risk sex class. Findings are discussed in terms of understanding the phenotypic expressions of risk behavior as they relate to early psychosocial development and the long-term protective function of self-control in reducing high risk drinking and sexual behaviors.
机译:高风险饮酒和性行为在成年后达到高峰,并且经常发生在同一个人中。已发现饮酒会损害决策能力,并助长性行为的高风险。但是,饮酒与危险的性行为之间的关联也可能反映出在冒险,社交,自我控制和相关变量方面的持久个体差异。两种行为都可以起到与娱乐,人际关系以及追求兴奋或愉悦相关的相似功能。本研究在城市少数民族年轻成年女性样本中检验了高危饮酒和性行为聚在一起的程度,该人群是与性健康相关的不良后果风险较高的人群。我们测试了在高中开始时测得的社会心理功能是否能预测女孩在纵向进入成年后的危险行为类别。潜在类别分析表明,根据成年后的高风险饮酒和性行为(即多个性伴侣),有三种不同的特征。最大的一类(占样本的73%)报告低水平的饮酒和性行为。第二大类(19%)报告说高风险饮酒和低风险的性行为,最小的一类(8%)报告这两种行为高水平。与其他种族/族裔群体的女性相比,黑人女性更有可能被归类为高危饮酒/低危性别人群。多项式逻辑回归表明,青春期的自我控制对八年后的风险行为具有广泛而持久的保护作用,并且与处于低风险饮酒/低风险性别阶层的可能性更大相关。讨论结果时应了解危险行为的表型表达,因为它们与早期心理社会发展以及自我控制对减少高风险饮酒和性行为的长期保护功能有关。

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