TY - JOUR
T1 - College Men’s Use of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Sexual Aggression, Risky Sexual Behavior, and Heavy Episodic Drinking
AU - Treat, Teresa A.
AU - Viken, Richard J.
AU - Westemeier, Olivia
AU - Corbin, William R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Psychological Association
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Objective: Sexually aggressive behavior (SAB), risky sexual behavior (RSB), and heavy episodic drinking (HED) are serious behavioral health problems among college men. The present study substantially revises and validates protective behavioral strategies (PBS) measures in the SAB and RSB domains; evaluates the relations among PBS usage in the SAB, RSB, and HED domains; and determines whether college men with SAB, RSB, or HED histories report lower PBS usage. Method: College students who identified as men (n = 1,121) completed measures of PBS, SAB, RSB, HED, rapesupportive attitudes, sociosexuality, and bar/party attendance. Results: Factor analyses resulted in three PBS scales (SAB, RSB-General, and RSB-Protection) that showed good fit and cross-validated well. Average scores for all four PBS measures converged moderately to strongly. Men reporting histories of SAB, RSB, or HED reported much lower domain-specific PBS use, and domain-specific PBS predicted concurrent SAB, RSB, or HED in the presence of other established predictors. Conclusions: Four welldeveloped and validated PBS measures now provide an expanded set of potential harm-reduction strategies for college men who drink and engage in sexual activity. Given the strong concurrent associations between PBS use and problems, as well as the interrelatedness of PBS use across domains, future research should examine the impact of simultaneous personalized normative feedback on PBS use across alcohol and sexual domains.
AB - Objective: Sexually aggressive behavior (SAB), risky sexual behavior (RSB), and heavy episodic drinking (HED) are serious behavioral health problems among college men. The present study substantially revises and validates protective behavioral strategies (PBS) measures in the SAB and RSB domains; evaluates the relations among PBS usage in the SAB, RSB, and HED domains; and determines whether college men with SAB, RSB, or HED histories report lower PBS usage. Method: College students who identified as men (n = 1,121) completed measures of PBS, SAB, RSB, HED, rapesupportive attitudes, sociosexuality, and bar/party attendance. Results: Factor analyses resulted in three PBS scales (SAB, RSB-General, and RSB-Protection) that showed good fit and cross-validated well. Average scores for all four PBS measures converged moderately to strongly. Men reporting histories of SAB, RSB, or HED reported much lower domain-specific PBS use, and domain-specific PBS predicted concurrent SAB, RSB, or HED in the presence of other established predictors. Conclusions: Four welldeveloped and validated PBS measures now provide an expanded set of potential harm-reduction strategies for college men who drink and engage in sexual activity. Given the strong concurrent associations between PBS use and problems, as well as the interrelatedness of PBS use across domains, future research should examine the impact of simultaneous personalized normative feedback on PBS use across alcohol and sexual domains.
KW - alcohol consumption
KW - protective behavioral strategies
KW - risky sex
KW - sexual aggression
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U2 - 10.1037/adb0000965
DO - 10.1037/adb0000965
M3 - Article
C2 - 37956027
AN - SCOPUS:85185927693
SN - 0893-164X
JO - Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
JF - Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
ER -