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Çelik E, Dombak K, Kaya M, Sahranç Ü, Makas S, Koçak L, Takunyacı M, Bekir S. Examining the attitudes of sexually abused and non-abused individuals towards marriage in terms of ambivalent sexism. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0288110. [PMID: 37418431 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023] Open
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The research aims to examine the attitudes of individuals who are victims of abuse and those who are not towards marriage in terms of ambivalent sexism. The research study group consists of 718 individuals between the ages of 18-48. Research data were collected with the Inonu Marriage Attitude Scale and Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. As a result of the correlation analysis, it was concluded that the marriage attitude was positively and significantly correlated with hostile and protective sexism. However, since the relationship between hostile sexism and attitudes towards marriage is lower than that of protective sexism, hostile sexism was not included in the model as a control variable. In the covariance analysis, it is seen that protective sexism and sexual abuse predict the attitude towards marriage at a statistically significant level. In addition, when the effect of sexual abuse on the attitude towards marriage was examined by controlling the protective sexism variable, it was found that it was statistically significant without the effect of sexism. According to the findings, it was determined that individuals who were not victims of sexual abuse had higher attitudes towards marriage than those who were victims.
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- Eyüp Çelik
- Faculty of Education, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
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- Institute of Education Sciences, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
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- Faculty of Education, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
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- Faculty of Education, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
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- Faculty of Education, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
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- Faculty of Education, Bayburt University, Bayburt, Turkey
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- Institute of Education Sciences, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
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Ngo-Thi TT, Huynh VS, Dang-Thi NT, Nguyen-Duong BT, Vu-Nguyen TT, Nantachai G, Nguyen Trong N, Tran-Chi VL. Mediation Effects of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness on the Relationship Between Expectations for Marriage and Marital Intention of Vietnamese Undergraduate Students. Psychol Res Behav Manag 2022; 15:3513-3530. [PMID: 36505671 PMCID: PMC9733628 DOI: 10.2147/prbm.s387789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/09/2022] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of expectations for marital relationships and premarital sexual permissiveness on intent to marry of Vietnamese emerging adults. Patients and Methods Our cross-sectional study was focused on emerging adults including 344 participants, undergraduate students from universities in Viet Nam. This study was assessed by using the PLS-SEM approach. Results The main findings demonstrated that (i) sexual orientation have a significant effect on marital intention; (ii) individuals' expectations for marital relationship have a direct effect on marital intention; and (iii) premarital sexuality permissiveness mediates the relationship between expectations for marital relationship and marital intention. Conclusion Our results contribute important documents and clearer understanding of emerging adults' expectations and requirements in a relationship for the marriage decision-making process.
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- Thuy-Trinh Ngo-Thi
- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,Correspondence: Nguyen Nguyen Trong, Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam, Tel/Fax +84 387 149 100, Email
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- Faculty of Psychology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Schreurs L, Sumter SR, Vandenbosch L. A Prototype Willingness Approach to the Relation Between Geo-social Dating Apps and Willingness to Sext with Dating App Matches. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2020; 49:1133-1145. [PMID: 32170549 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-020-01671-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Despite voiced concerns about sexual online risk behaviors related to mobile dating, little is known about the relation between mobile dating and sexting. The current cross-sectional study (N = 286) examined the relations between the use of geo-social dating apps and emerging adults' willingness to sext with a dating app match. By drawing on the prototype willingness model, both a reasoned path and a social reaction path are proposed to explain this link. As for the reasoned path, a structural equation model showed that more frequent dating app usage is positively related to norm beliefs about peers' sexting behaviors with unknown dating app matches (i.e., descriptive norms), norm beliefs about peers' approval of sexting with matches (i.e., subjective norms), and negatively related to perceptions of danger to sext with matches (i.e., risk attitude). In turn, descriptive norms were positively and risk attitudes were negatively associated with individuals' own willingness to sext with someone they had met through a dating app. As for the social reaction path, it was found that more frequent dating app usage was positively related to emerging adults' favorable evaluations of a prototype person who sexts with unknown dating app matches (i.e., prototype perceptions). The analyses further revealed that such prototype perceptions positively linked with emerging adults' own willingness to sext with a match. These results were similar among women and men and help explain why individuals may be willing to engage in sexting behavior with unknown others.
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- Lara Schreurs
- School for Mass Communication Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Parkstraat 45, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), Brussels, Belgium
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- Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School for Mass Communication Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Parkstraat 45, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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Mate Selection, Meaning of Marriage and Positive Cognitive Constructs on Younger and Older Married Individuals. CONTEMPORARY FAMILY THERAPY 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10591-017-9411-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Zhou RDH, Chiu MYL, Chui WY. Development and Validation of the Marital Metaphor Questionnaire (MMQ-10) for Urban Chinese Women. JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY 2017; 43:65-81. [PMID: 27436638 DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Metaphors have long been applied to marital counseling and couple therapy. This pioneering study measures marital conceptualization through metaphors. It reports the validation of the Marital Metaphor Questionnaire (MMQ-10), designed to measure the marriage conceptualization of Chinese women through marital metaphors. The MMQ-10 was found to have favorable psychometric properties including reliable internal consistency, a good discriminative prediction of marriage at risk and moderate correlation with a Chinese indigenous multidimensional marital satisfaction inventory. Factor analysis reveals that the MMQ-10 is composed of three dimensions: conjugal relationship, marital anguish, and marital conviction. The MMQ-10 appears to be suitable for the use with Chinese women in premarital or marital counseling sessions. The present researchers hope that this study may support the use of metaphors in future research and clinical practice in other nations and cultures.
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Landor AM, Halpern CT. The Enduring Significance of Skin Tone: Linking Skin Tone, Attitudes Toward Marriage and Cohabitation, and Sexual Behavior. J Youth Adolesc 2016; 45:986-1002. [PMID: 26979445 PMCID: PMC4896087 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0456-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Past evidence has documented that attitudes toward marriage and cohabitation are related to sexual behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. This study extends prior research by longitudinally testing these associations across racial/ethnic groups and investigating whether culturally relevant variations within racial/ethnic minority groups, such as skin tone (i.e., lightness/darkness of skin color), are linked to attitudes toward marriage and cohabitation and sex. Drawing on family and public health literatures and theories, as well as burgeoning skin tone literature, it was hypothesized that more positive attitudes toward marriage and negative attitudes toward cohabitation would be associated with less risky sex, and that links differed for lighter and darker skin individuals. The sample included 6872 respondents (49.6 % female; 70.0 % White; 15.8 % African American; 3.3 % Asian; 10.9 % Hispanic) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The results revealed that marital attitudes had a significantly stronger dampening effect on risky sexual behavior of lighter skin African Americans and Asians compared with their darker skin counterparts. Skin tone also directly predicted number of partners and concurrent partners among African American males and Asian females. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of these findings for adolescence and young adulthood.
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- Antoinette M Landor
- Department of Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, 407 Gentry Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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- Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 206 W Franklin St, Room 281, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA
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Willoughby BJ, Hall SS, Goff S. Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults. THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2014; 149:796-817. [PMID: 25494858 DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2014.979128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Marriage, once a gateway to adulthood, is no longer as widely considered a requirement for achieving adult status. With declining marriage rates and delayed marital transitions, some have wondered whether current young adults have rejected the traditional notion of marriage. Utilizing a sample of 571 young adults, the present study explored how marital centrality (the expected importance to be placed on the marital role relative to other adult roles) functioned as a unique and previously unexplored marital belief among young adults. Results suggested that marriage remains an important role for many young adults. On average, young adults expected that marriage would be more important to their life than parenting, careers, or leisure activities. Marital centrality profiles were found to significantly differ based on both gender and religiosity. Marital centrality was also associated with various outcomes including binge-drinking and sexual activity. Specifically, the more central marriage was expected to be, the less young adults engaged in risk-taking or sexual behaviors.
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Willoughby BJ. The Role of Marital Beliefs as a Component of Positive Relationship Functioning. JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-014-9202-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Associations Between Family and Interpersonal Processes and Emerging Adult Marital Paradigms: Does Adult Attachment Mediate? JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-014-9200-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Vasilenko SA, Lefkowitz ES, Welsh DP. Is Sexual Behavior Healthy for Adolescents? A Conceptual Framework for Research on Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Physical, Mental, and Social Health. New Dir Child Adolesc Dev 2014; 2014:3-19. [DOI: 10.1002/cad.20057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Human Development and Family Studies Department; Pennsylvania State University
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Katz J, Schneider ME. Casual hook up sex during the first year of college: Prospective associations with attitudes about sex and love relationships. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2013; 42:1451-1462. [PMID: 23519593 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-013-0078-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2012] [Revised: 09/12/2012] [Accepted: 09/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This study examined bidirectional relationships among emerging adults' involvement in casual hook up sex and attitudes about sex and love relationships. At the start and end of their first year in college, undergraduates (N = 163) responded to measures of sexual behavior, sexual attitudes, and attitudes about love relationships. In cross-sectional analyses, attitudes about sex and love both were associated with involvement in casual hook up sex. In prospective analyses, initial attitudes about sexual instrumentality uniquely predicted involvement in later hook up sex, even after controlling for past hook up sex. Furthermore, involvement in hook up sex during the first year of college predicted greater sexual permissiveness and comfort with casual genital contact, even after controlling for initial sexual attitudes and hook up behaviors. None of the associations between attitudes and behavior were qualified by gender. Experiences of causal hook up sex appear to have implications primarily for emerging adults' attitudes about sexual interactions rather than their attitudes about love relationships.
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- Jennifer Katz
- Department of Psychology, SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, 14454, USA,
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Emerging Adults’ Perceptions of Acceptable Behaviors Prior to Forming a Committed, Dating Relationship. JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-013-9169-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Park SS, Rosén LA. The Marital Scales: Measurement of Intent, Attitudes, and Aspects Regarding Marital Relationships. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2013.780491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Parent–Daughter Communications and Emerging Adults’ Beliefs About Mate Selection. JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-012-9152-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Relationship Formation and Early Risk Exposure: Diverging Associations with Romantic Self-Concept and Attachment. JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-012-9151-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Associations Between Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attitudes, and Marital Horizons During Emerging Adulthood. JOURNAL OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10804-011-9138-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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