TY - JOUR
T1 - African American Women’s Language Use in Response to Male Partners’ Condom Negotiation Tactics
AU - Li, Yachao
AU - Samp, Jennifer A.
AU - Coles Cone, Valerie B.
AU - Mercer Kollar, Laura M.
AU - DiClemente, Ralph J.
AU - Monahan, Jennifer L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA018096).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Central States Communication Association.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - African American women are vulnerable for sexual health risk; thus, condom use is essential. Guided by research linking goals to communicative content, this study explored women’s use of I-, you-, we-, and hedging language during condom negotiation. Female participants (N = 193) engaged in a condom negotiation role play with male confederates, where language use measures were coded. I-language was used the most frequently. Language use differed as a function of men’s tactics, such that women primarily used I-language in response to verbal attacks, you-language in response to seduction, and I- and we-language in response to information seeking. Women who engaged in more recent condom use were more likely to use you-language and, when confederates attacked, they responded with more you-language and less hedging.
AB - African American women are vulnerable for sexual health risk; thus, condom use is essential. Guided by research linking goals to communicative content, this study explored women’s use of I-, you-, we-, and hedging language during condom negotiation. Female participants (N = 193) engaged in a condom negotiation role play with male confederates, where language use measures were coded. I-language was used the most frequently. Language use differed as a function of men’s tactics, such that women primarily used I-language in response to verbal attacks, you-language in response to seduction, and I- and we-language in response to information seeking. Women who engaged in more recent condom use were more likely to use you-language and, when confederates attacked, they responded with more you-language and less hedging.
KW - African American Women
KW - Condom Negotiation
KW - Condom Use
KW - Language Use
KW - Message Production
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U2 - 10.1080/10510974.2017.1412335
DO - 10.1080/10510974.2017.1412335
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85037992691
VL - 69
SP - 67
EP - 84
JO - Communication Studies
JF - Communication Studies
SN - 0008-9575
IS - 1
ER -