Using a nationally representative sample, limited to men and women 15 to 44, researchers gathered data on previous experience with marriage and cohabitation, the sequencing and stability of the relationships, and various characteristics of partners.
An advantage of these methods in studies of HIV seroincidence or superinfection is that exposure data are collected partner by partner, and the characteristics of each partner are documented separately.
Our results show the importance of taking into account the characteristics of the partner and the context of the sexual acts: the main factors for not using a condom with a male partner were the location of sexual intercourse, having not participated in a MSM program and the age of the male partner.
Thus, the characteristics of the partner relationship may play a role in their use.
Due to the distributed and heterogeneous characteristics of different partner companies, it is a big challenge to implement a satisfying and cost effective solution in the networked enterprise.
The alternative is to consider that people adjust their preference to reflect the characteristics of their partner.
One option is that the same offers were perceived or evaluated as more fair when they were preceded by words that described positive characteristics of the partner, compared to negative descriptions.
In addition, they were told that, on every trial, before the offer they would see a trait adjective which represented personal characteristics of their partner for that trial, gathered from several questionnaires, and that these may or may not be related to the offer the partners made.
It has been suggested that for Black Americans, characteristics of the partner pool (i.e. mixing) may be more important than the characteristics of the individual partnership[ 30].
A drawback of the study is that the data did not include information on the characteristics of her partner or her family of origin.
