Context While recent pharmacological advances have generated increased public interest and demand for clinical services regarding erectile dysfunction, epidemiologic data on sexual dysfunction are relatively scant both women men.Objective To assess the prevalence risk of experiencing across various social groups examine determinants health consequences these disorders.Design Analysis from National Health Social Life Survey, a probability sample study behavior in demographically...

The Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (GSSAB) investigated various aspects sex relationships among 27,500 men women aged 40-80 years. Here, we report help-seeking behaviours for sexual problems in this population. A questionnaire was administered using the accepted survey method each country. Although almost half all sexually active respondents had experienced at least one problem, less than 19% them (18.0% 18.8% women) attempted to seek medical help their problem(s). most...

This article examines whether existing estimates of network size and social isolation, drawn from egocentric name generators across several representative samples, suffer systematic biases linked to interviewers. Using analytic approaches, we find that found in the 2004 2010 General Social Surveys (GSS), as well other were affected by significant interviewer effects. Across these surveys, a negative correlation between effects mean size. In GSS, levels connectivity are strongly...

Prior research has found that several types of social networks—social and associational ties, religious involvement, recruitment contacts—promote volunteering. This article extends the literature by examining whether tie diversity matters for volunteering effects networks are conditional on being recruited or not. Using 1999 Giving Volunteering Survey, authors estimated probit models asked to volunteer The results show diversity, number involvement each associated with recruitment....

The rise of urbanization and mass communication the decoupling sexuality from reproduction moral regulation have contributed to late modern expansion specialized erotic worlds catering a variety sexual tastes. Organized by appetites dispositions related race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, these arenas exploration become sites stratification dominion wherein actors vie for partners, social significance, esteem. These are what Adam Isaiah Green calls fields, help us navigate them, he offers...

Scholars have devoted attention to “cause lawyers” on the political left, but lawyers who work conservative side of American spectrum received relatively little academic consideration. This article presents systematic data characteristics and relationships among affiliated with organizations active a selected set 17 issues. We find that serve several separate distinct constituencies—business conservatives, Christian libertarians, abortion opponents—and credentials serving these varying...

Approximately 12% of girls and young women in the United States pledge abstinence. Yet most break their pledges, engaging first intercourse before marriage. The extant literature reports few differences between breakers nonpledgers sexually transmitted infections nonmarital pregnancies. present research maintains that previous studies may have obscured important exposure risk hypothesizes female who higher are more likely to experience human papillomavirus (HPV) To test this hypothesis,...

This research investigates whether first sexual intercourse during adolescence is associated with increased risk of marriage dissolution and tests the results are consistent causal or selection explanations. Drawing on a sample 3,793 ever-married women from 2002 National Survey Family Growth, this study estimated event-history models first-marriage dissolution. Results indicate that wanted debut in later does not directly increase marital but linked indirectly as result subsequent premarital...

Concurrent sexual partnerships may facilitate the spread of STDs, but little is known about partnership concurrency and its association with relationship contexts involvement.Data demographic characteristics, histories most recent opposite-sex among 783 adults aged 18-59 were drawn from 1995 Chicago Health Social Life Survey. Wald chi-square tests assessed gender differences in timing type involvement concurrent partnerships; bivariate probit regression analyses examined associations between...

Historically, religious groups have been absent from the American environmental movement, but since late 1990s a host of new movement organizations (REMOs) emerged. Little is known about REMOs or how religion structures nascent field. Drawing on interviews with leaders 63 in United States, we examined whether theological frames and affiliations, one hand, interests, other, shaped formation information exchange joint action between REMOs. The results show that shared affiliations are directly...

Some research on lawyers active in politics has found that the ties among them create networks which a center or core of influential actors is surrounded by more peripheral participants. Other studies, however, segmented networks, sometimes lacking central players. This examines structure and determinants political forty-seven elite who served organizations prominent fourteen national policy issues 2004–05. The analysis finds network resembles rough circle with Republicans one side Democrats...

Youths who have deviant and delinquent friends are more likely to engage in delinquency. Interestingly, most quantitative studies of the association between peers behavior assumed that all peer connections similar effects. Yet, it is possible influence may vary depending on characteristics peers. Using social network data from two waves National Longitudinal Survey Adolescent Adult Health, this study examines impact same-sex cross-sex friendships deviance delinquency adolescent networks. The...

Is social connectedness in the United States truly declining? This research examines whether existing estimates of network size and isolation, drawn from egocentric name generators across several representative samples, suffer systematic biases linked to interviewers. Utilizing analytical approaches, we find that found 2004 2010 General Social Surveys, as well other are impacted by significant interviewer effects. Across these surveys, there is a negative correlation between effects mean...

This research examines whether being engaged and having a joint banking account influence relationship quality among cohabitors. Drawing on interviews with 936 young cohabitors from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study Adolescent Health, we estimated ordinary least squares regression engagement. The main effects engagement were both significant positive, but their interaction was negative. These results indicated that nonengaged have levels similar to cohabitors, are advantaged...

The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics family relationships associated with communication genetic risk and testing behaviors among at-risk relatives in families an inherited cardiac condition. Data were collected from 53 patients parents children condition through interviews, pedigrees, surveys. Associations examined relationship whether informed about their tested for disease. Of 1,178 relatives, 52.5% 52.1% those tested. Emotional closeness, quality, frequency had...