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Protective Parenting, Relationship Power Equity, and Condom Use Among Rural African American Emerging Adult Women
Author(s) -
Kogan Steven M.,
Simons Leslie G.,
Chen Yifu,
Burwell Stephanie,
Brody Gene H.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12003
Subject(s) - condom , psychology , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , gender equity , social psychology , demography , equity (law) , structural equation modeling , medicine , gender studies , sociology , political science , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , statistics , mathematics , communication , syphilis , family medicine , law
Sexually transmitted infections disproportionately affect African Americans, particularly young women. The influence of a set of interrelated protective parenting processes—instrumental and emotional support, sexual risk communication, and encouragement of goals for employment or education—on emerging adult women was examined. Parenting was hypothesized to affect consistent condom use through its association with women's reports of power equity in their intimate relationships. Hypotheses were tested with 135 sexually active women 18 to 21 years of age living in rural southern communities. Structural equation modeling indicated that (a) parenting processes predicted women's self‐reported relationship power equity and consistent condom use and (b) relationship power equity predicted consistent condom use. Limited support emerged for a mediational role of relationship power equity in explaining the influence of parenting on consistent condom use. Parental involvement and young women's establishment of personal control in their intimate relationships are important goals for sexual risk reduction programs .