Do gendered racial microaggressions influence the relationship between body appreciation and Black emerging adult women's condom use behaviors?

Sexual protective behaviors, such as consistent condom use and intention, are important preventative measures against the transmission of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. Current sexual health research has yet to explore the interaction between contextual factors, such as gendered racial microaggressions, and the role of personal factors (i.e.

Sex differences in how ethnic-racial identity informs first coital affect and virginity beliefs among Black college students.

The present study examined whether ethnic-racial identity (ERI) exploration, resolution, and affirmation informed individuals' beliefs about virginity (ie, virginity as a gift, stigma, process) and first coital affective reactions (FCAR; ie, positive and negative), and whether these relations varied by biological sex. The sample consisted of 184 Black college students ( = 19.79,  = 2.

"You put yourself at risk to keep the relationship:" African American women's perspectives on womanhood, relationships, sex and HIV.

Recent trends indicate that HIV and STI infection rates are rising among adults over the age of 50, and African American women have the highest rates of HIV infection across racial and ethnic groups of women in the USA. Limited research has examined factors that contribute to HIV risk among older African American women. The current study used Collins' Black Feminist Thought to examine and understand attitudes and perceptions around HIV and sexual risk behaviours among African American women aged 50 years and older.

The effect of affective versus cognitive persuasive messages on African American women's attitudes toward condom use.

Objective: Health decision making models propose that affective associations at both the implicit and explicit level and cognitive beliefs influence health behaviours. The current studies investigated whether affective or cognitive persuasive messages would lead to more positive implicit and explicit condom use attitudes and higher intentions among African American college women.

Design: Participants (Study 1  = 109; Study 2  = 112) explicit attitudes were assess prior to watching a short video that contained either affective (e.

Loving myself through thick and thin: Appearance contingent self-worth, gendered racial microaggressions and African American women's body appreciation.

Contrary to previous literature, recent studies have indicated that African American women are reporting similar rates of body dissatisfaction as their European American counterparts. Yet, little is known about contextual factors, such as gendered racial microaggressions and their association with body appreciation, and whether appearance contingent self-worth accounts for this relationship. Consistent with intersectionality theory, this study examined appearance-contingent self-worth as a mediator between stress related to experiencing sexually objectifying gendered racial microaggressions and body appreciation.