ARSR: Committed to Quality and Breaking New Ground

EditorialAs the incoming editor of the Annual Review of Sex Research (ARSR), I was asked to state my goals for the forthcoming series of issues, and I gladly take this opportunity. From the early years of my own work in sex research, the ARSR has been one of my most important resources. Its contributions always brought me comprehensiveness and scholarly excellence, whatever the topic of the article. Thus, it may not come as a surprise that I am dedicated to maintain this high standard of quality and comprehensiveness of the reviews that make it into ARSR. Below, I highlight some of the quality criteria that color my view of what are good and worthwhile review articles

Cognitieve theorieën in seksuologisch onderzoek en praktijk

Het psychologische onderzoek naar de oorzaken van seksuele disfuncties is sinds de zestiger jaren van de 20e eeuw sterk verweven met de ontwikkelingen in de cognitieve psychologie. Deze invloed werd sterker nadat er onderzoeksmethoden waren geïntroduceerd die het mogelijk maakten om cognitieve processen te bestuderen zonder gebruik te maken van introspectie. Ook de praktijk van de seksuologische hulpverlening is sterk beïnvloed door therapeutische technieken afkomstig uit de cognitieve psychologie. In dit artikel geven we niet zozeer een uitputtende behandeling van de ontwikkeling van cognitieve theorieën binnen seksuologisch onderzoek en klinische praktijk, maar een enigszins persoonlijk overzicht van de invloed van het cognitief-psychologische perspectief op het seksuologische werkveld gedurende de afgelopen vijf decennia. We belichten zowel verworvenheden als knelpunten van cognitieve benaderingen

Agreement between nursing home caregivers’ observations of residents’ depression, well-being and quality of life

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Agreement between nursing home caregivers’ observations of residents’ depression, well-being and quality of life

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Seksueel-misbruikslachtoffers: Hoe vergaat het hen in de ggz?

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Could differences in implicit attitudes to sexual concurrency play a role in generalized HIV epidemics?

Background: Sexual partner concurrency has been implicated in the genesis of generalized HIV epidemic in South Africa. Most South Africans, however, disapprove of concurrency in surveys. These surveys test individuals' explicit attitudes which are susceptible to a number of important biases such as the social desirability bias. Assessment of implicit cognitions have been found to be better predictors of behaviour in socially sensitive domains. We hypothesized that South Africans may have implicit attitudes more tolerant of concurrency than lower concurrency prevalence populations. Methods: To test this hypothesis, we developed a concurrency-implicit association test (C-IAT) and compared the C-IATs of samples of South African and Belgian university students. Results: We found a large and statistically significant difference in the C-IAT between the South Africans (D600-score = -0.009, indicating absence of preference for concurrency or monogamy) and Belgians (D600-score = 0.783, indicating a strong preference for monogamy; t-test = 13.3; P < 0.0001). The effect size measure, Cohen's d, was found to be 0.88, which is considered a large effect size in this field. Conclusions: Our results are compatible with the thesis that differences in implicit attitudes to concurrency play a role in the genesis of generalised HIV epidemics