@article {4416,
	title = {Gender moderates the relationship between impulsivity and sexual risk-taking in a cocaine-using psychiatric outpatient population.},
	journal = {Personality and individual differences},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015 Mar 1},
	pages = {190-194},
	abstract = {Adults who abuse substances are at increased risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Within this population, sexual risk behaviors have been associated with increased impulsivity. Studies in non-clinical populations showing gender-related differences in sexual decision-making and casual sexual partnering suggest impulsivity has a greater influence on men than women, but these differences have not been documented in substance-using patients. In a sample of 89 adults with recent cocaine use and receiving outpatient psychiatric treatment, we tested the hypothesis that gender moderates the effect of impulsivity on sexual risk-taking. Using logistic regression modeling, we tested the main and gender-moderated effects of task-related impulsivity on the probability of having a casual sexual partner and multiple sexual partners. Results confirmed a significant gender-by-impulsivity interaction; men who were more impulsive on a continuous performance task had significantly higher rates of sexual risk-taking than less impulsive men, but women{\textquoteright}s impulsivity was unrelated to these outcomes. Impulsive men were over three times as likely as less impulsive men to have a recent casual partner. Implications of these results and suggestions for future research are discussed.},
	issn = {0191-8869},
	author = {Black, Anne C and McMahon, Thomas J and Potenza, Marc N and Fiellin, Lynn E and Rosen, Marc I}
}
