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Predicting Condom Use in African American STD Patients: The Role of Two Types of Outcome Expectancies 1
Author(s) -
Sanderson Catherine A.,
Maibach Edward W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - condom , psychology , outcome (game theory) , clinical psychology , developed country , safer sex , social psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , medicine , family medicine , mathematics , geometry , mathematical economics , syphilis , sociology
This study examined the association of two types of condom use outcome expectancies (self‐approval and partner reaction) with patterns of safer sexual behavior among predominantly African American patients at a sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic. As expected, both individuals' own self‐approval outcome expectancies and their partner reaction outcome expectancies predicted consistency of condom use, although partner reaction expectancies predicted condom use above and beyond the effects of self‐approval expectancies. Furthermore, individuals who believed that they and their partner shared positive condom use outcome expectancies reported the greatest use of condoms. These findings suggest that HIV prevention programs should address both types of condom use outcome expectancies in order to maximize behavior change.