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Negative affect and sexual risk behavior: comment on Crepaz and Marks (2001). Health Psychol 2001 Jul;20(4):300-1

Date

08/23/2001

Pubmed ID

11515742

DOI

10.1037/0278-6133.20.4.300

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0034905654 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   75 Citations

Abstract

In this commentary, the authors highlight the findings of the meta-analysis by N. Crepaz and G. Marks (2001). The role of affect in sexual risk behavior, although intuitively obvious, is not well understood and has been largely ignored by HIV prevention researchers in favor of social-cognitive models of behavior. Crepaz and Marks synthesized the results from studies that have examined the relation of negative affect (e.g., depression, anxiety, anger) to sexual risk behavior and concluded that in the literature to date, these variables appear unrelated. The authors suggest that the Crepaz and Marks findings are not surprising given the methods used in the reviewed studies and suggest methodological approaches that will allow more sensitive analyses of the association between affect and sexual risk behavior.

Author List

Kalichman SC, Weinhardt L

Author

Lance S. Weinhardt MS,PhD Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Community and Behavioral Health Promotion in the Joseph. J. Zilber School of Public Health department at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Adult
Affect
Female
Humans
Male
Risk-Taking
Sexual Behavior