Identifying Psychosocial Variables That Predict Safer Sex Intentions in Adolescents and Young Adults.

ABSTRACT: Young people are especially vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The triad of deliberate and effective safer sex behavior encompasses condom use, combined with additional information about a partner's sexual health, and the kind of sex acts usually performed. To identify psychosocial predictors of young people's intentions to have safer sex, as related to this triad, we conducted an online study with 211 sexually active participants aged between 18 and 24 years. Predictors [i.e., perceived behavioral control (PBC), subjective norms, and intention] taken from Fishbein and Ajzen's Reasoned Action Approach (RAA), were combined with more distal variables (e.g., behavioral inhibition, sensation seeking, parental monitoring, and knowledge about STIs). Beyond the highly predictiv

SUBMITTER: Brull P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837163 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature