ArticleSexual health2018
Concordance between monetary and sexual delay discounting in men who have sex with men.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Measuring Sexual Risk-Taking: A Systematic Review of the Sexual Delay Discounting Task.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Pooled it
- Sexual discounting: A systematic review of discounting processes and sexual behavior.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Assessing Motivation for Condom Use Among MSM: Effort Discounting as a Novel Measure of Sexual Risk.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- A Behavioral Economic Examination of Sexual Behaviors in the Era of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis via Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- The association between monetary and sexual delay discounting and risky sexual behavior in an online sample of men who have sex with men.AIDS care · 2018Article
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Abstract
Background Delay discounting has been found to be associated with numerous health-related outcomes, including risky sexual behaviour. To date, it is unclear whether delay discounting measured in different domains is associated within individuals. The goal of this study was to assess the concordance of monetary and sexual delay discounting in men who have sex with men.
methodsParticipants completed an online survey, including the Monetary Choice Questionnaire and the Sexual Discounting Task. Linear regression models were used to assess the association between monetary and sexual discount rates.
resultsSexual discount rates did not predict monetary discount rates. There was a substantial amount of clustering of sexual discount rates, requiring sexual discounting data to be categorised.
conclusionsMonetary and sexual delay discounting are distinct processes that are not necessarily associated within individuals, and monetary delay discounting is not an appropriate proxy measure for sexual impulsivity. Data from the Sexual Discounting Task are typically rank-transformed for analysis. These data suggest that this might be an invalid method of analysis. Future studies should investigate the distribution of their data to determine if it is appropriate to analyse sexual discounting data as a continuous measure.
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