How do contextual factors and gender differences influence college students' safer sex practices?

Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education for Adolescents and Children

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 33-49

  Werner Wilson, Ronald Jay ^a   Vosburg, Jill ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Gender differences; HIV; Safer sex practices

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EGO IDENTITY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

EID: 0031691597     PISSN: 1069837X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J129v02n02_03     Document Type: Article

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