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Correlates of condom use and condom‐use motivation among young South Africans
Author(s) -
DevineWright Hannah,
Abraham Charles,
Onya Hans,
Ramatsea Susan,
Themane Mahlapahlapana,
Aarø Leif Edvard
Publication year - 2015
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/jasp.12328
Subject(s) - condom , psychology , social psychology , psychological intervention , interpersonal communication , attribution , social cognitive theory , variance (accounting) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , multilevel model , developmental psychology , medicine , family medicine , statistics , accounting , syphilis , psychiatry , sociology , business , mathematics
A survey of South African secondary school students aged 12–17 years ( n = 893) included measures designed to investigate relationships between beliefs about HIV/AIDS, condom use, interpersonal relationships, and two dependent measures: motivation to use condoms and reported condom use. We predicted that motivation would be an important correlate of reported condom use and that traditional cultural beliefs included in social cognition models would predict condom use motivation. Hierarchical multiple regression showed that 10% of the variance in reported condom use was accounted for by condom use motivation and age. Condom self‐efficacy, beliefs about condoms and injunctive norms accounted for much of the variance. Other beliefs included susceptibility to HIV and attribution of HIV to asexual sources such as witchcraft indicating that an expanded model of modifiable cognitions may be optimal when designing HIV interventions among young South Africans.