title: Empirical tests of an information-motivation-behavioral skills model of AIDS-preventive behavior with gay men and heterosexual university students.
abstract: This article contains empirical tests of the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model of AIDS-preventive behavior (J.D. Fisher & Fisher, 1992; W.A. Fisher & Fisher, 1993a), which has been designed to understand and predict the practice of AIDS-preventive acts. The IMB model holds that AIDS-preventive behavior is a function of individuals' information about AIDS prevention, motivation to engage in AIDS prevention, and behavioral skills for performing the specific acts involved in prevention. The model further assumes that AIDS-prevention information and motivation generally work through AIDS-prevention behavioral skills to influence the initiation and maintenance of AIDS-preventive behavior. Supportive tests of the model, using structural equation modeling techniques, are reported with populations of gay male affinity group members (n = 91) and heterosexual university students (n = 174).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-1020.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Malloy
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology / Q000635:transmission; D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*