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Effects of Relationship Motivation, Partner Familiarity, and Alcohol on Women's Risky Sexual Decision Making

Tina Zawacki

University of Texas at San Antonio, tina .zawacki{at}utsa.edu

Jeanette Norris

University of Washington

Danielle M. Hessler

University of Washington

Diane M. Morrison

University of Washington

Susan A. Stoner

University of Washington

William H. George

University of Washington

Kelly Cue Davis

University of Washington

Devon A. Abdallah

University of Washington

This experiment examined the effects of women's relationship motivation, partner familiarity, and alcohol consumption on sexual decision making. Women completed an individual difference measure of relationship motivation and then were randomly assigned to partner familiarity condition (low, high) and to alcohol consumption condition (high dose, low dose, no alcohol, placebo). Then women read and projected themselves into a scenario of a sexual encounter. Relationship motivation and partner familiarity interacted with intoxication to influence primary appraisals of relationship potential. Participants' primary and secondary relationship appraisals mediated the effects of women's relationship motivation, partner familiarity, and intoxication on condom negotiation, sexual decision abdication, and unprotected sex intentions. These findings support a cognitive mediation model of women's sexual decision making and identify how individual and situational factors interact to shape alcohol's influences on cognitive appraisals that lead to risky sexual decisions. This knowledge can inform empirically based risky sex interventions.

Key Words: relationships • cognitive appraisals • sexual risk taking • alcohol myopia

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 6, 723-736 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209333043
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