@article{ref1,
title="A laboratory examination of risky sexual behavior among female sexual trauma survivors",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2022",
author="Mahoney, Colin T. and Lawyer, Steven R. and Pemberton, Shelby E. and Marchant, Kaitlyn M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Sexual violence against women is highly prevalent on college campuses. Survivors of sexual violence often engage in coping strategies such as risky sexual behavior. The present study used a behavioral task to measure sexual risk-taking following experiences of positive or negative affect and an emotion suppression experimental manipulation. Sexually active adult female undergraduates (N = 175) completed measures of sexual traumatization and affective experiences as well as an autobiographical recall task and a delay discounting task for hypothetical sexual outcomes. Half of the participants (n = 87) were asked to suppress their emotional response to the autobiographical recall task. The findings indicate that sexual traumatization had a significant effect on risky sexual decision-making, F(1, 167) = 23.27, p <.001, η(p) (2) =.12, but affective condition, F(1, 167) =.57, p =.451, and emotion suppression, F(1, 167) =.69, p =.412, exhibited no significant associations with sexual risk-taking. These findings suggest other factors may underlie the association between sexual trauma and risky sexual behavior, but further research is warranted.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.22866",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22866"
}