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Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses
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: Received: 2 March 2024 / Approved: 3 March 2024 / Online: 4 March 2024 (09:52:31 CET)
How to cite:
Fedd, A.; Samp, J.A.; Ray, C. Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses. Preprints2024, 2024030083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0083.v1
Fedd, A.; Samp, J.A.; Ray, C. Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses. Preprints 2024, 2024030083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0083.v1
Fedd, A.; Samp, J.A.; Ray, C. Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses. Preprints2024, 2024030083. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0083.v1
APA Style
Fedd, A., Samp, J.A., & Ray, C. (2024). Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0083.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Fedd, A., Jennifer Anne Samp and Colter Ray. 2024 "Communicating about Sex Is Important in Generating Positive Perceptions about One’s Sexual and Romantic Life. The Last Decade Has Provided Insight into the Theoretical Applications on Sex Communication Research. While the Focus on Extant Research Focuses" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0083.v1
Abstract
Communicating about sex is important in generating positive perceptions about one’s sexual and romantic life. The last decade has provided insight into the theoretical applications on sex communication research. While the focus on extant research focuses on the psychological processes’ individuals employ to talk about sex, no theoretical framework exists that identifies key constructs that provides a parsimonious understanding about the communicative processes of sex and sexuality. This review sought to identified key constructs that are suitable to develop a sex talk theory. In the current project, we reviewed 24 studies including 8,698 participants (Mage = 24.98) that applied a theoretical framework to sex research. This review identified three salient constructs (e.g., disclosure, cognitive, and relational and behavioral) that are important for a sex talk theory. Last, this review indicated that scholarship should explain the relationships between the key constructs. We provided several recommendations that scholars should take when developing a theory in sex communication research.
Keywords
Sex Talk, Communicative Processes, Theory Development, Interpersonal Relationships, Sexual Behaviors
Subject
Social Sciences, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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