Social Behavior and Personality
Volume 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-432

HIV/AIDS-related sexual risk behavi ors in male rural-to-urban migrants in China (Article)

Yang T. , Wang W.* , Abdullah A.S. , Beard J. , Cao C. , Shen M.
  • a Department of Social Medicine, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
  • b Department of Social Medicine, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University School of Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Yuhangtang Road 388, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
  • c Department of International Health, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
  • d Department of International Health, Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
  • e Hangzhou Center for Disease Control, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
  • f Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, School of Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

There is a lack of research concerning the connection between HIV-related sexual risk behaviors (SRBs) and the psychological characteristics of middle-aged male migrants in China. This study was aimed at describing how psychological characteristics affected the SRBs of migrant men in two Chinese cities. A cross-sectional survey in Hangzhou and Guangzhou was used to collect sociodemographic and psychological data from male migrants over 3 age groups: 20-29 (Group I), 30-39 (Group II), and 40-59 years (Group III). The mean incidence of the participants' extramarital sex was higher in Group I than Group III, while the mean Hedonism Seeking Scale (Yang et al., 2006) score was higher in Group III than Group I. Results suggest that poor health status, higher stress levels and higher hedonism seeking increase sexual risk taking in middle-aged male migrants, while the longer the duration of living in an urban area and living with a partner reduce such behaviors in all groups. © Society for Personality Research (Inc.).

Author Keywords

China Migration Migrants sexual risk behaviors HIV/AIDS

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-67649921392&doi=10.2224%2fsbp.2009.37.3.419&partnerID=40&md5=e0fe80cb963b25d98d9097ceea7ce788
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2009.37.3.419
ISSN: 03012212
Cited by: 5
Original Language: English