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Associations Between HIV Risk, Unmitigated Communion, and Relationship Power Among African American Women

Most new HIV infections among African American women are due to unprotected sex in heterosexual relationships. Women's scores on measures of relationship power and unmitigated communion (focus on others and exclusion of self) are associated with risky sexual behavior. We hypothesized African American women scoring low on relationship power and high on unmitigated communion would report greater risk for HIV infection. In a sample of 217 African American adult women, relationship power strongly correlated with HIV risk (p < .05), but unmitigated communion did not. Relationship power explained 40% of the variance in women's perceived HIV risk (β = −.631, p = .000). Compared to their high relationship power counterparts, African American women with low to moderate levels of relationship …

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