Health beliefs as predictors of HIV-preventive behavior and ethnic differences in prediction.
The incidence of a variety of safer-sex behaviors was predicted, using five measures from the Health Belief Model (Janz & Becker, 1984): perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, self-efficacy, social support, and perceived barriers. The participants, 424 U.S. undergraduates at six schools, completed a written questionnaire. The results of multiple regression analyses indicated that perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and social support predicted many safer-sex behaviors. Although the Health Belief Model predicted more safer-sex behaviors for Euro-American students than for Hispanic American, African American, and Asian American students, the present data indicated few differences among these ethnic groups regarding the level of safer-sex behaviors.
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Center for Organizational and Behavioral Sciences, Claremont Graduate School, CA 91711, USA. STEERSN@CGS.EDU
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Nemiro
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Ditman
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D000293:Adolescent; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior