Indirect Effects of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Sexual Risk-Taking: The Roles of Subjective and Physiological Sexual Arousal
| dc.contributor.author | George, William H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Davis, Kelly Cue | |
| dc.contributor.author | Norris, Jeanette | |
| dc.contributor.author | Heiman, Julia R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stoner, Susan A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schacht, Rebecca | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hendershot, Christian S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kajumulo, Kelly F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-26T17:45:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-26T17:45:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-04-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Three experiments supported the idea that alcohol fosters sexual risk-taking in men and women, in part, through its effects on sexual arousal. In Experiment 1, increasing alcohol dosage (target blood alcohol levels of .00, .04, .08%) heightened men’s and women’s risk-taking intentions. Alcohol’s effect was indirect via increased subjective sexual arousal; also, men exhibited greater risk-taking than women. In Experiment 2, an extended dosage range (target blood alcohol levels of .00, .06, .08, .10%) heightened men’s risk-taking intentions. Alcohol’s effect again was indirect via subjective arousal. Physiological sexual arousal, which was unaffected by alcohol, increased risk-taking via increased subjective arousal. In Experiment 3, alcohol increased women’s risk-taking indirectly via subjective arousal, but alcohol-attenuated physiological arousal had no effect on risk-taking. Implications for alcohol myopia theory and prevention interventions are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Appreciation is expressed to Dr. Erick Janssen for consultation in plethysmography instrumentation and stimulus selection to Tina Zawacki, Reasons Project staff, and numerous undergraduate assistants for their aid in data collection. Conduct of this research was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (AA13565) to William H. George. Portions of this paper were presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Vancouver, BC. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-008-9346-9 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 28 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles postprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m28tgp-nfdj | |
| dc.identifier.citation | George, W. H., Davis, K. C., Norris, J., Heiman, J. R., Stoner, S. A., Schacht, R. L., Hendershot, C. S., & Kajumulo, K. F. (2009). Indirect effects of acute alcohol intoxication on sexual risk-taking: The roles of subjective and physiological sexual arousal. Archives of sexual behavior, 38(4), 498–513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9346-9 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9346-9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18760 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Psychology Department Collection | |
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| dc.rights | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Archives of sexual behavior. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9346-9. | |
| dc.title | Indirect Effects of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Sexual Risk-Taking: The Roles of Subjective and Physiological Sexual Arousal | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |