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Adolescent Females' Attitudes, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Intentions to Use Latex Condoms
Author(s) -
Rannie Katherine,
Craig Dorothy M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1997.tb00410.x
Subject(s) - sexual behavior , psychology , perceived control , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine
Guided by I. Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior, the authors of this descriptive correlational study explored adolescent females' attitudes, subjective norms (social pressure), perceived behavioral control, and intentions with regard to latex condom use. An elicitation study was initially conducted ( n = 16) to ascertain salient beliefs related to condom use. These beliefs were then used to develop a questionnaire administered during the main study to 60 sexually active adolescent females attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Global attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control predicted 50% of the variance of intentions to use condoms. Perceived behavioral control contributed the highest proportion of variance in the equation for both global and belief‐based measures in stepwise regression analyses. Implications for community health practice, research, and theory are reported.