Sister Act: Understanding Sorority Women's Communication About Condom Use

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dc.contributorSharf, Barbara
dc.creatorHernandez, Rachael A.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-21T22:03:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-22T07:13:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T19:58:53Z
dc.date.available2011-10-21T22:03:18Z
dc.date.available2011-10-22T07:13:15Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T19:58:53Z
dc.date.created2010-08
dc.date.issued2011-10-21
dc.description.abstractYoung women?s sexual health is declining. Sorority women face an intersectionality of risk for the negative consequences of sexual activity because of college attendance, sex, and age. The influence of peer communication about condom use can provide a buffer to the risk these women face. I investigated this communication through focus groups, using the theory of communication privacy management and grounded theory to understand focus group findings. The results revealed themes regarding characteristics of communicators and context of communication including communication topic and setting. The women use strategies, boundaries and rules to negotiate communication privacy and engage in comfortable communication. Additionally, the women seek to maintain a good reputation for their social group, and follow explicit and implicit rules to do so. The implication of this analysis includes improvements in sorority and college student sexual health programming and continued research on communication in social support organizations like sororities.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8439
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectprivacy
dc.subjectmanagement
dc.subjectyoung women
dc.subjectsex
dc.subjectcondom
dc.subjectcondoms
dc.subjectsorority
dc.subjectsororities
dc.subjectcollege
dc.subjectstudents
dc.titleSister Act: Understanding Sorority Women's Communication About Condom Use
dc.typeThesis

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