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Generational Perspectives of Unprotected Sex and Sustainable Behavior Change in Nigeria: | |
Amaechi D. Okonkwo1  | |
关键词: Nigeria; unmarried university students; unprotected sex; structure; agency; influences; sustainable behavior change; | |
DOI : 10.1177/2158244012472346 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Sage Journals | |
【 摘 要 】
Despite the HIV/AIDS pandemic and over two decades of safe-sex communication and condom social marketing in Nigeria, unmarried people continue to engage in unprotected sex. Understanding their perspectives of unprotected sex will be imperative for sustainable policy and intervention design. To realize this objective, the author synthesized Giddensâs structuration theory and Rob Stonesâs structurationist project research brackets to develop a long interview guide used to elicit unmarried university studentsâ perspectives of influences on unprotected sex, and the feasibility of sustainable behavior change in Nigeria. Participantsâ constructed unprotected sex as prescripted, and the cumulative outcome of complex institutional (structural), interpersonal, and agential influences. Their narratives challenge the popular but narrow loss of control, sensation-seeking, and ignorance theses of unprotected sex. Instead, participantsâ narratives implicate an interrelated web of persuasive and insidious institutional and agential influences, in a manner that privilege neither structure nor agency. To promote safer sexual practices therefore, stakeholders must concurrently engage with institutional and agential influences on unprotected sexâand not focus on unmarried peopleâs sexual agencies alone, as current interventions do in Nigeria.
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CC BY
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