Cognitive representations of sexual self differ as a function of gender and sexual debut.
Cognitive representations of sexual self differ as a function of gender and sexual debut.
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性自我的认知表征因性别和首次性行为而异。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-009-9545-z
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Blayney,JessicaA
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作者：
Lindgren,KristenP;Schacht,RebeccaL;Mullins,PeterM;Blayney,JessicaA
这项研究评估了性别和首次性行为（初次性交）之间的关联和性行为的间接测量。440名美国大学生的样本（初次性行为前：144名女性，153名男性;初次性行为后：49名女性，94名男性）完成了性自我图式量表（SSSS）和三项内隐联想测试（IAT），SSSS评估了关于自身性方面的认知表征，IAT测量了自我+性，女性+性，男人+性结果重复了先前的发现，即（1）男性比女性更强烈地将自我+性别和女性+性别联系起来，（2）男性和女性对男性+性别的联系同样强烈。初次性行为后女性的自我+性联想和女性+性联想均强于初次性行为前。男性的协会没有显着不同的功能性首次亮相。后性首次女性的SSSS分数更直接，更浪漫，比前性首次女性的保守。初次性行为后的男性SSSS得分比初次性行为前的男性更积极，更开放。首次性行为似乎与女性的性化和性自由的认知表征有关，在较小程度上，与男性的性自由和侵略性认知表征有关。研究结果与认知一致性的理论是一致的，并提供了初步证据表明，性初次亮相状态与不同的认知表征。
This research evaluated the association between gender and sexual debut (initial sexual intercourse) and indirect measures of sexuality. A sample of 440 U.S. college students (pre-sexual debut: 144 women, 153 men; post-sexual debut: 49 women, 94 men) completed the Sexual Self-Schema Scale (SSSS), which assessed cognitive representations about sexual aspects of oneself, and three Implicit Association Tests (IAT), which measured the strength of the associations between the concepts of self + sex, women + sex, and men + sex. Results replicated previous findings that (1) men more strongly associated self + sex and women + sex than did women, and (2) men and women had similarly strong associations of men + sex. Post-sexual debut women’s self + sexual and women + sexual associations were stronger than pre-sexual debut women’s. Men’s associations did not differ significantly as a function of sexual debut. Post-sexual debut women’s SSSS scores were more direct, more romantic, and less conservative than pre-sexual debut women’s. Post-sexual debut men’s SSSS scores were more aggressive and more open-minded than pre-sexual debut men’s. Sexual debut appeared to be associated with sexualized and sexually liberal cognitive representations in women and, to a lesser extent, sexually liberal and aggressive cognitive representations in men. Findings were consistent with theories of cognitive consistency and provide preliminary evidence that sexual debut status was associated with differing cognitive representations.