The main purpose of this research was to evaluate interactions between spirituality, sensation seeking and high-risk sexual behavior, with the intention of corroborating or discarding spirituality as a moderating variable in this relationship. To test the moderating effect, we surveyed 563 Puerto Rican adults, selected by availability. The average age of participants was 33.83. The experimental design was non-experimental, correlational type. According to our results, a low, negative and statistically significant relationship was found between spirituality and high-risk sexual behavior. Despite this, the evidence collected in this study dictates that spirituality does not influence personality in such a way as to dampen the relationship between sensation seeking and high-risk sexual behaviors.
Keywords:
sensation seeking, sexual risk behavior, spirituality
González-Rivera, J. A., Aquino-Serrano, F. V., Ruiz-Quiñones, B. S., Matos-Acevedo, J. M., Vélez-De la Rosa, I. A., Burgos-Aponte, K., & Rosario-Rodríguez, K. (2018). Relationship Between Spirituality, Sensation Seeking and High-Risk Sexual Behavior. Revista De Psicología, 27(1), pp. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2018.50739
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