Abstract

Communication plays a central role in promoting effective condom use. In particular, women’s humorous communication functions to facilitate condom use self-efficacy in heterosexual dating relationships. Results from 189 cisgender women revealed that an affiliative humor style was a positive predictor of willingness to talk to partners about using condoms despite potentially negative consequences and confidence in using assertive communication to bring up the topic of condom use. However, employing an aggressive humor style was a negative predictor of women’s willingness to talk to partners about using condoms despite potentially negative consequences. Overall, greater understanding of humor styles as a means of understanding condom use self-efficacy has substantive pragmatic health-related implications.

摘要

沟通在促进安全套的有效使用方面发挥着核心作用。尤其是女性幽默的沟通功能，有助于促进异性恋约会中安全套使用的自我效能感。来自 189 名顺性别女性的结果显示，亲和幽默风格是愿意与伴侣谈论使用安全套的积极预测因素，尽管使用自信的沟通来提出使用安全套的话题有潜在的负面后果和信心。然而，尽管有潜在的负面后果，但采用咄咄逼人的幽默风格是女性愿意与伴侣谈论使用安全套的负面预测因素。总体而言，更深入地理解幽默风格作为理解安全套使用自我效能的一种手段具有实质性的与健康相关的实用意义。