… general sexual communication predicts contraceptive use above and beyond
contraceptive-specific … and contraceptive use in a normative sample of sexually active adolescent …

… differences between dating and cohabiting couples in contraceptive use, demographic …
and our two contraceptive use measures for dating couples and for cohabiting couples. We ran …

… Consistent with a life-course perspective and with the research by Manning et al.9 and
Kusunoki and Upchurch,7 we hypothesized that dating couples would be sorted into several …

… Investigations of ineffective contraceptive use have generally focused on individualistic rather
… of dating couples to investigate four intimacy dimensions in relation to contraceptive use. …

… as dating, so our findings cannot be generalized to all dating … that few couples maintain
condom use as relationships … clinic efforts should help dispel couple-level misperceptions about …

… of contraceptive use to couples… dating relationship the partners have intercourse (Peplau,
Rubin, & Hill, 1977). Are women also more influential in affecting the couple's contraceptive use…

… implications for contraceptive use and consistency. On average, the more “couple-like” …
who have sex relatively early in a dating relationship, those who wait are more likely to use …

… missing or incomplete date, we dropped the partner with the missing/incomplete date of the
… Engaging in a greater number of couple-like activities with one’s partner before first having …

… The current study was an examination of sex differences in influence among dating couples
making two different kinds of sexual decisions. In a laboratory decision-making task, male …

… Males play a critical role in couples’ sexual decisions and … For the 31 adolescents who
reported the same date of first sex for more than one partner, we randomly selected one partner to …