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Generalizing Behavioral Findings Across Times, Samples, and Measures: A Study of Condom Use 1
Author(s) -
Albarracin Dolores,
Fishbein Martin,
Middlestadt Susan
Publication year - 1998
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.1559-1816.1998.tb01725.x
Subject(s) - theory of reasoned action , psychology , condom , social psychology , theory of planned behavior , sample (material) , generalization , control (management) , mathematics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , mathematical analysis , chemistry , management , syphilis , family medicine , chromatography , economics
Data from a Knowledge, Attitude, Belief, and Practices (KABP) Survey, administered to a sample of residents of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, were used to replicate a previous study (Fishbein, Trafimow, Francis, et al., 1995) that investigated the relative importance, as predictors of condom use, of selected theoretical variables from the theory of reasoned action (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), and the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen & Madden, 1986). Besides addressing generalization problems, the study tested a more internally valid formulation of the role of past behavior that supported the argument that past condom use is better viewed as a predictor of current intention than as a criterion variable. Perhaps more important, the influence of past behavior was found to be partially mediated by its effect on attitudes and norms.