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Fidelity Management

African-American Adolescents' Attempts to Control the Sexual Behavior of their Partners

Stephen L. Eyre

University of Califomia, San Francisco, USA

Colette Auerswald

University of Califomia, San Francisco, USA

Valerie Hoffman

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Susan G. Millstein

University of California, San Francisco, USA

This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partner often leads to suspicion of infidelity and jealousy. The jealous partner then performs acts of surveillance which can lead either to reassurance or to discovery of infidelity. The article concludes by discussing the degree of uniqueness of fidelity management to African- American adolescents and possible relevance to design of AIDS risk-reduction interventions.

Key Words: adolescence • African-American, qualitative methods • risk taking, sex roles

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 3, 393-406 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/135910539800300308
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