Assessing the Theory of Gender and Power: HIV Risk Among Heterosexual Minority Dyads

doi:10.1007/s10461-017-1983-3

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AIDS Behav. 2018 Jun; 22(6): 1944–1954.

doi: 10.1007/s10461-017-1983-3

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Table 4

Final model paths and factor loadings: unstandardized coefficients, standard errors and Z scores

Paths		Unstandardized coefficient	SE	Z score	p-value
From	To
Women’s structural power	Substance involvement	− 0.215	0.06	− 3.595	< 0.001
Heterosexual Orientation		− 1.385	0.281	− 4.932	< 0.001
Male structural power	Disrespect	− 0.092	0.040	− 2.286	0.022
Age at first sex		− 0.116	0.036	− 3.183	0.001
Living with sex partner		− 0.306	0.128	− 2.383	0.017
Substance involvement		0.269	0.076	3.546	< 0.001
Women’s structural power	Risk communication	0.091	0.039	2.372	0.018
Age		− 0.024	0.006	− 3.906	< 0.001
Disrespect (with)	Risk communication	0.175	0.067	2.609	0.009
Substance involvement	# Of sex partners	0.268	0.051	5.255	< 0.001
Risk communication	Comfort requesting condoms	0.315	0.097	3.234	0.001
Heterosexual Orientation	Women’s sexual risk	− 0.414	0.186	− 2.232	0.026
Comfort requesting condoms		− 0.191	0.045	− 4.289	< 0.001
# Of sex partners		0.415	0.089	4.650	< 0.001
Disrespect		0.401	0.203	1.980	0.048
Geographic region		− 0.023	0.006	− 3.515	< 0.001
Substance involvement		− 0.093	0.095	− 0.977	0.329
Risk communication		0.06	0.079	0.763	0.446
Women’s structural power		− 0.067	0.045	− 1.493	0.135
Male structural power		− 0.064	0.049	− 1.309	0.191
Age at first sex		− 0.055	0.044	− 1.258	0.208
Living with sex partner		0.052	0.14	0.374	0.708
Marital status		− 0.136	0.087	− 1.573	0.116
Age		0.012	0.008	1.598	0.110
Race/Ethnicity		0.004	0.047	0.090	0.929
Factor loadings
Substance use	Crack use^{^a}	1	0	999	999
	Marijuana use	0.763	0.145	5.246	< 0.001
	Other drug use	1.432	0.334	4.288	< 0.001
	Injection drug use	0.668	0.168	3.962	< 0.001
	Problem drinking	0.474	0.097	4.882	< 0.001
Risk communication	# Current sex partners^{^a}	1	0	999	999
	# Past sex partners	1.310	0.200	6.603	< 0.001
	Ever MSM	1.440	0.157	6.647	< 0.001
	HIV status	1.278	0.194	6.599	< 0.001
	Drug use history	1.427	0.222	6.441	< 0.001
	STD history	1.826	0.299	6.097	<.001
	using condoms	0.775	0.121	6.402	< 0.001
Disrespect in Dyad	Any physical or sexual abuse^{^a}	1	0	999	999
Disrespect in Dyad	Partner has other partners	0.755	0.188	4.01	< 0.001

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