Objective: The goal of this article is to review and highlight the relevance of social
psychological research on self-regulation for health-related theory and practice. Methods …

Objective Behavioral intervention programs to reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors have
shown statistically significant reductions in the short-term; however, longer-term follow-up …

Se revisó la literatura reciente (10 años) sobre los efectos que sobre la salud de las
personas tienen los factores de riesgo psicosocial en el trabajo. Para ello se analizaron 92 …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

En este artículo de revisión se analizan diversos estudios sobre las conductas y prácticas
sexuales de riesgo, con la finalidad de entablar una reflexión de los principales hallazgos a …

Objective. Despite studies indicating that a significant proportion of adolescents are having
oral sex, the focus of most empirical studies and intervention efforts concerning adolescent …

Past research suggests that sexual satisfaction may be partially dependent on sexual
motives (the reasons people have sex). The primary goal of this study was to determine …

A within-person multilevel approach was used to model the links between alcohol use and
sexual behavior among first-year college students, using up to 14 days of data for each …

CONTEXT: Effective STD and pregnancy prevention efforts should benefit from knowledge
of what motivates adolescents to have sex. Positive motivations, and how they differ by …

CONTEXT: Most US teenage pregnancies are unintended, partly because of inconsistent or
no use of contraceptives. Understanding the factors associated with contraceptive use in …