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The next part: "Methodology in Specific Contexts" has 6 papers: "Measuring Sexual Behavior among Teenage Males in the United States," "Item Nonresponse in the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys among African American and White Respondents," "The Effects of Question Wording, Interviewer Gender, and Control on Item Response by African American Respondents," "Researching Sexual Behavior: Methodological Issues for Hispanics," "Sexual Research with Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men," and "Sexual Behavior Research: Studying Bisexual Men and Women and Lesbians." Part 4: "Change in Behavior Over Time" presents "Pooling Information from Repeated Population Surveys" and Methodological Problems in Trend Analysis of Sexual Behavior." The next part: "Retrospective versus Daily Assessment, also, has two papers: "A Comparison of Retrospective Interview Assessment versus Daily Ratings of Sexual Interest and Activity in Women" and "Concordance between Self-Report Questionnaires an Coital Diaries for Sexual Behaviors of Adolescent Women with Sexually Transmitted Infections."
Part 6: "Participating Bias" includes "Sampling Male Homosexuality" and "Assessing Participation Bias" followed by part 7: "Researching Sexual Networks" that includes "Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Study of Sexuality" and "A Research Design for Studying Romantic Partners." Part 8: "Researching Sexual Interactions" has one paper: "Coding Interactional Sexual Scripts" and part 9 has 3 concluding papers: "Sex Surveys in the Context of Survey Research," "Gender," and "Cross-Cultural Issues." The last 4 papers are post conference papers: "Qualitative Methods in Sex Research in Papua New Guinea," "Item Nonresponse to Questions about Sex, Substance Use, and School: Results from the Reach for Health Study of African American and Hispanic Young Adolescents," "Measuring Social Networks Using Samples," and "A Model for Investigating Respondent-Interviewer Relationships in Sexual Surveys."
This is a highly recommended book for all researchers delving into sexual behavior, especially as it is associated with AIDS. It is a must-have book for all academic and medical libraries.
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