@article{javidi_widman_maheux_mccrimmon_evans-paulson_becker_2023, title={PACT: Developing and Evaluating a Digital Sexual Consent Program for Youth}, volume={5}, ISSN={["1559-8519"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2208560}, DOI={10.1080/00224499.2023.2208560}, abstractNote={Understanding affirmative sexual consent is crucial for violence prevention and health promotion, yet few adolescents receive adequate consent education. The current study aimed to evaluate the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a brief online program designed to teach adolescents information and skills about communicating and interpreting affirmative sexual consent (PACT: Promoting Affirmative Consent among Teens) in a randomized controlled trial with a national sample of 833 U.S. adolescents (ages 14-16; 42% White, 17% Asian, 17% Black, 13% Latinx; 53% girls, 31% boys, 12% non-binary; 45% heterosexual; 29% sexually active). PACT, grounded in health behavior change and persuasion theories, was developed using feedback from youth advisors and usability testers. Participants considered the program generally acceptable. Compared to youth who completed a control program, PACT was efficacious at shifting three measures of affirmative consent cognitions (i.e., knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy) from baseline to immediate posttest. Youth who completed PACT also demonstrated more accurate affirmative consent knowledge at 3 months post-baseline. PACT's effects on consent cognitions were generally similar among youth with various gender, racial/ethnic, and sexual identities. We discuss next steps for this program, including the possibilities of expanding to include additional concepts and tailoring to address the unique needs of specific youth.}, journal={JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH}, author={Javidi, Hannah and Widman, Laura and Maheux, Anne J. J. and McCrimmon, Jordyn and Evans-Paulson, Reina and Becker, Whitney}, year={2023}, month={May} } @article{evans-paulson_widman_javidi_lipsey_2022, title={Examining the efficacy of STD testing public health messages tailored to youth’s regulatory focus.}, volume={28}, ISSN={1939-2192 1076-898X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000421}, DOI={10.1037/xap0000421}, abstractNote={Only 25% of sexually active youth have ever been tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). One potential strategy to increase testing is to target youth with health messages tailored to their regulatory focus. People have a dominant regulatory focus and tend to be either more concerned with the risks of unhealthy choices (prevention-focused) or the benefits of healthy choices (promotion-focused). Theoretically, when someone is targeted with a message that matches their regulatory focus, the message will be more effective. Among 380 sexually active youth, we examined whether matching STD testing messages to youth's regulatory focus strengthens the efficacy of the message for improving STD testing stigma, self-efficacy, and intentions. We evaluated participants' regulatory focus and then assigned them to watch either a prevention-focused or promotion-focused video encouraging STD testing. Among prevention-focused youth, those who watched the prevention-focused video had more stigmatizing attitudes toward STD testing than those who watched the promotion-focused video. Post hoc analyses confirmed the robustness of these findings for our stigma outcome and revealed a similar pattern for self-efficacy: youth who were more prevention-focused and received the prevention-focused video had lower STD testing self-efficacy. Our results for testing intentions were not significant. Interventionists should consider making STD testing messages for youth promotion-focused. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied}, publisher={American Psychological Association (APA)}, author={Evans-Paulson, Reina and Widman, Laura and Javidi, Hannah and Lipsey, Nikolette}, year={2022}, month={Dec}, pages={835–848} } @article{volpe_hope_mosley_javidi_sosoo_benson_2022, title={How We Get Free: Graduate Training as an Opportunity for Equitable Participation and Liberation}, volume={8}, ISSN={["1745-6924"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221096086}, DOI={10.1177/17456916221096086}, abstractNote={In this conceptual article, we assert that psychology should be transformed to adopt the explicit goal of working toward the liberation of people oppressed by society rather than striving for mere equality. To achieve such a transformation, it is necessary to reenvision graduate training in psychology. Graduate training in psychology is an important vehicle by which psychologists can become prepared to use research and practice to eradicate inequities in society. Therefore, we propose six pillars for liberation-focused graduate training in psychology: critical unlearning/unknowing, cooperative modes of production, prioritizing indigenous knowledge, embedded interdependence, systems-level action, and prioritizing members of oppressed groups. Although this conceptualization may engender resistance, we argue that there are many potential pathways by which graduate training may use liberation psychology to work equitably with oppressed groups to seek justice.}, journal={PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE}, author={Volpe, Vanessa V. and Hope, Elan C. and Mosley, Della V and Javidi, Hannah and Sosoo, Effua E. and Benson, G. Perusi}, year={2022}, month={Aug} } @article{javidi_widman_evans-paulson_lipsey_2022, title={Internal Consent, Affirmative External Consent, and Sexual Satisfaction Among Young Adults}, volume={3}, ISSN={["1559-8519"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2022.2048628}, DOI={10.1080/00224499.2022.2048628}, abstractNote={Sexual satisfaction is an important part of sexual health. Recently, efforts have been underway to better understand what factors contribute to positive sexual experiences among young adults. One factor may be sexual consent. This study aimed to explore individual and interactive effects of two distinct, but related dimensions of sexual consent - internal consent and affirmative external consent - on young adults' feelings of sexual satisfaction following their most recent sexual intercourse experience. Participants were 294 young adults (ages 18-25, Mage = 23.7; 59% women) recruited from Amazon's MTurk. Results showed that each dimension of consent had a significant, unique relationship with satisfaction, and that the two dimensions of consent alone accounted for half of the variance in satisfaction. Additional analyses showed that there are specific components of both internal and affirmative external consent (e.g., safety/comfort; arousal; consent/want; communicator/initiator cues) that may be most influential in driving this relationship. As both consent dimensions greatly contribute to positive sexual experiences, researchers attempting to promote sexual wellbeing may be wise to attend to both internal and external consent.}, journal={JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Javidi, Hannah and Widman, Laura and Evans-Paulson, Reina and Lipsey, Nikolette}, year={2022}, month={Mar} } @article{evans-paulson_widman_javidi_lipsey_2021, title={Is Regulatory Focus Related to Condom Use, STI/HIV Testing, and Sexual Satisfaction?}, volume={59}, ISSN={["1559-8519"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1961671}, DOI={10.1080/00224499.2021.1961671}, abstractNote={Regulatory focus theory contends that when making decisions people are either more inclined to focus on avoiding negative consequences (more prevention-focused) or achieving pleasurable outcomes (more promotion-focused). Some research suggests that regulatory focus is related to health behaviors, although this has not been thoroughly investigated in the sexual health domain. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between regulatory focus (prevention, promotion) and sexual health. In an online survey of 409 youth from the U.S. (ages = 18-25; Mage = 23.5; 57.2% women; 74.1% White, 13.4% Asian, 10.5% Black, 9.8% Hispanic), we examined the relationship between regulatory focus and three sexual health outcomes: condom use, STI/HIV testing, and sexual satisfaction. Of youth in our sample, 31.8% had a dominant prevention-focus, while 54.8% had a dominant promotion-focus. Compared to youth who were more promotion-focused, more prevention-focused youth used condoms more frequently but reported less sexual satisfaction. No differences were found in rates of STI/HIV testing. This study lays the groundwork to investigate the dynamic role that regulatory focus may play in contributing to youths' sexual health. More experimental and longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the causal nature of the association between regulatory focus and sexual health.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Evans-Paulson, Reina and Widman, Laura and Javidi, Hannah and Lipsey, Nikolette}, year={2021}, month={Aug} } @article{javidi_widman_lipsey_brasileiro_javidi_jhala_2021, title={REDEVELOPING A DIGITAL SEXUAL HEALTH INTERVENTION FOR ADOLESCENTS TO ALLOW FOR BROADER DISSEMINATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HIV AND STD PREVENTION}, volume={33}, ISSN={["1943-2755"]}, DOI={10.1521/aeap.2021.33.2.89}, abstractNote={HIV/STDs and unintended pregnancy persist among adolescents in the United States; thus, effective sexual health interventions that can be broadly disseminated are necessary. Digital health interventions are highly promising because they allow for customization and widespread reach. The current project involved redeveloping and expanding HEART (Health Education and Relationship Training)—a brief, digital sexual health intervention efficacious at improving safer sex knowledge, self-efficacy, and behavior—onto an open-source platform to allow for greater interactivity and accessibility while reducing long-term program costs. The authors describe the process of adapting, reprogramming, and evaluating the new program, which may serve as a guide for investigators seeking to adapt behavioral interventions onto digital platforms. The final product is an open-source intervention that can be easily adapted for new populations. Among 233 adolescents (M age = 15.06; 64% girls), HEART was highly acceptable and generally feasible to administer, with no differences in acceptability by gender or sexual identity.}, number={2}, journal={AIDS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION}, author={Javidi, Hannah and Widman, Laura and Lipsey, Nikolette and Brasileiro, Julia and Javidi, Farhad and Jhala, Arnav}, year={2021}, month={Apr}, pages={89–102} } @article{widman_javidi_maheux_evans_nesi_choukas-bradley_2021, title={Sexual Communication in the Digital Age: Adolescent Sexual Communication with Parents and Friends About Sexting, Pornography, and Starting Relationships Online}, volume={25}, ISSN={["1936-4822"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09866-1}, DOI={10.1007/s12119-021-09866-1}, number={6}, journal={SEXUALITY & CULTURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Widman, Laura and Javidi, Hannah and Maheux, Anne J. and Evans, Reina and Nesi, Jacqueline and Choukas-Bradley, Sophia}, year={2021}, month={Dec}, pages={2092–2109} } @article{widman_javidi_maheux_evans_nesi_choukas-bradley_2021, title={Sexual Communication in the Digital Age: Adolescent Sexual Communication with Parents and Friends About Sexting, Pornography, and Starting Relationships Online (Apr, 10.1007/s12119-021-09866-1, 2021)}, volume={6}, ISSN={["1936-4822"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09883-0}, DOI={10.1007/s12119-021-09883-0}, abstractNote={A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09883-0}, journal={SEXUALITY & CULTURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Widman, Laura and Javidi, Hannah and Maheux, Anne J. and Evans, Reina and Nesi, Jacqueline and Choukas-Bradley, Sophia}, year={2021}, month={Jun} } @article{brasileiro_widman_evans_javidi_2021, title={Social self-efficacy and sexual communication among adolescents in the United States: a cross-sectional study}, volume={18}, ISSN={["1449-8987"]}, DOI={10.1071/SH20221}, abstractNote={Background Sexual communication between partners is associated with safer sex behaviours, including condom use among adolescents. Several studies have found a relationship between negative psychological constructs (e.g. depression, anxiety) and poor sexual communication; however, scant research exists regarding positive psychological constructs and their potential to promote effective sexual communication among adolescents. This study examined the association between a positive construct, social self-efficacy - a person's belief in their ability to successfully manage social relationships - and three components of sexual communication: sexual assertiveness, self-efficacy for communication, and frequency of sexual communication with dating partners.Data were collected in a cross-sectional survey from 222 high school girls in a rural school district in the south-eastern United States (Mage = 15.2; 38% White, 29% Latina, 24% Black; 50% were in a dating relationship in the past 3 months). Variables were measured with Likert-type scales. Bivariate correlation and regression analyses were conducted.Social self-efficacy was significantly positively associated with sexual assertiveness and sexual communication self-efficacy for all girls, and there was a positive trend in the relationship between social self-efficacy and communication frequency among the subsample of girls who had a dating partner. The significant relationship with sexual assertiveness (β = 0.22, s.e. = 0.07, P = 0.001) and sexual communication self-efficacy (β = 0.17, s.e. = 0.04, P = 0.013) remained when controlling for sexual activity status.Strengthening social self-efficacy may enhance girls' sexual communication and assertiveness skills. Future studies are needed to confirm the causal and temporal nature of these associations.}, number={2}, journal={SEXUAL HEALTH}, author={Brasileiro, Julia and Widman, Laura and Evans, Reina and Javidi, Hannah}, year={2021}, pages={172–179} } @article{kamke_widman_javidi_2021, title={The Multidimensionality of Adolescent Girls' Gender Attitudes}, volume={39}, ISSN={["1936-4717"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-021-09288-1}, DOI={10.1007/s12147-021-09288-1}, number={2}, journal={GENDER ISSUES}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Kamke, Kristyn and Widman, Laura and Javidi, Hannah}, year={2021}, month={Aug} } @article{evans_widman_stokes_javidi_hope_brasileiro_2020, title={Association of Sexual Health Interventions With Sexual Health Outcomes in Black Adolescents A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis}, volume={174}, ISSN={["2168-6211"]}, DOI={10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0382}, abstractNote={