AIDS‐related beliefs and behaviours of Australian university students

Turtle, Alison M.; Ford, Barbara; Habgood, Robin; Grant, Mark D; Bekiaris, Jenny; Constantinou, Connie; Macek, Maria; Polyzoidis, Helen

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1989.tb136527.x

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“…Some aspects of the Sydney study have already been reported (Turtle et al, 1989). These will be referred to as the Macquarie and Sydney samples respectively.…”

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“…The most recent and detailed account is to be found in an already published report of an aspect of the present study relating to 419 respondents out of 600 University of Sydney students randomly sampled from the enrolled population of under thirty-year-olds (Turtle et aL, 1989). The most recent and detailed account is to be found in an already published report of an aspect of the present study relating to 419 respondents out of 600 University of Sydney students randomly sampled from the enrolled population of under thirty-year-olds (Turtle et aL, 1989).…”

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“…1987;Baldwin & Baldwin, 1988;Kegeles, Adlern, & Irwin, 1988;Simkins & Eberhage, 1984;Turtle et al, 1989). 1987;Baldwin & Baldwin, 1988;Kegeles, Adlern, & Irwin, 1988;Simkins & Eberhage, 1984;Turtle et al, 1989).…”

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Student-favoured strategies for AIDS avoidance

Crawford

Turtle

Kippax

1990

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Many of the young adults who constitute the bulk of the Australian university student population engage in a number of sexual practices currently considered by health authorities to place them at risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The present study combines data obtained by self-administered survey questionnak from samples of students at the University of Sydney (1987) and Macquarie University (1988), relating to their sexual behaviours, information possessed about means of HIV transmission, and their beliefs about the appropriate behavioural measures to reduce the chances of infection.Five scales of comlated sets of items were identified from the belief data as indicating particular strategies for AIDS avoidance. These related to reliance on regular partner, condom use, avoidance of certain sorts of people, asking about partners' history, and mass screening. The endorsement of particular strategies differs according to respondents' sex and/or whether or not they are sexually expenend. It is suggested that any effective AIDS education campaign targeted at the university population will need to take account of students' preexisting views as to how to protect themselves, and that some of these views may be based upon values and prejudices which predate the AIDS epidemic.There can be little doubt that the Australian student population engages in a number of risky sexual practices with regard to the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), even though the paucity of Australian data requires us to generalise to this group from what is known of the North Americm adolescent and college student populations. The bulk of the Australian university student population falls into the category of young adult, With a short tail of adolescents at the Iowa end of its age range, and a long tail of mature adults at the upper end. Researchers in the United States have documented an increase amongst adolescents over the last couple of decades in the prevalence of premarital intercourse, in number of sexual partners, and participation in casual sex (see Baldwin & Baldwin, 1988). Sorenson (1973) identified two patterns of sexual relationship among non-viriginal adolescents, those of the "serial monogamist" and the "sexual adventurer." Although the frequencies will have changed, the Requests for reprints should be sent to June Crawford,

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“…Some aspects of the Sydney study have already been reported (Turtle et al, 1989). These will be referred to as the Macquarie and Sydney samples respectively.…”

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Student-favoured strategies for AIDS avoidance

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Turtle

Kippax

1990

Australian Journal of Psychology

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“…Because of fears that the heterosexual community might become widely affected by AIDS, large public-education campaigns have been mounted to urge heterosexuals to change their sexual scripts to include condom use. As yet, these campaigns seem to have had limited impact with large proportions of young heterosexuals still engaging in unprotected sex (Hingson, Strunin, Berlin, & Heeren, 1990;Roscoe & Kruger, 1990;Turtle et al, 1989;Valdiserri, Arena, Proctor, & Bonati, 1989). For example, in a recent study of college students, Boyd and Wandersman (1991) reported wide diversity in condom use with 42% always or almost always using condoms, and 38% never using condoms.…”

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“…A similar low rate of usage of condoms has also been found for university students in Australia (Crawford, Turtle, & Kippax, 1990). Even in instances of casual sex, which students rated as having a high risk of HIV infection, only 26% had used condoms (Turtle et al, 1989).…”

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Romantic Ideals, Fear of Negative Implications, and the Practice of Safe Sex¹

Galligan

Terry

1993

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present study examined how young heterosexuals’ beliefs about the power of condom use to destroy their romantic ideals and to lead to negative implications affected both their intentions and their actual behavior of using and discussing the use of condoms with sexual partners. The extra predictive power gained from considering these beliefs, in addition to subjects’ beliefs concerning whether condoms reduced their risk of contracting HIV, was examined within the context of Fishbein and Ajzen's (1975) theory of reasoned action. One‐hundred‐and‐two sexually active heterosexual students participated in the study. At the first wave of data collection, beliefs concerning the potential of condoms to reduce risk, to destroy romance, and to lead to negative implications were assessed, as were norms and intentions. Measures of actual behavior were obtained three months later for both regular and casual/new partners. The results of the study indicated that norms and beliefs concerning the risk‐reduction effects of condom use were the primary predictors of intentions to use condoms. Subjects’ beliefs concerning whether condoms destroyed their romantic ideals or led to negative implications did not influence their intentions with casual/new partners, although emotional concerns played a minor role in determining intentions with regular partners. In contrast, these emotional concerns had a major impact in determining actual behavior for all partner types. Although intentions partially predicted behavior, beliefs about reducing risk, destroying romance and fear of negative implications had strong and direct influences on behavior, especially in the case of casual/new partners. Additional analyses revealed gender differences in the determinants of behavior. Females, in contrast to males, were less able to act in accord with their attitudes about using condoms to reduce their risk of contracting HIV, and were also less able to act in conformity with their subjective norms with less well‐known partners. Although both males and females were similarly affected by more emotional concerns with new and/or casual partners, gender differences occurred in how these emotional factors affected behavior with regular partners. Implications of the finding that behavior is determined to a large extent by more emotional concerns that are not factored in ahead of time when formulating intent are discussed.

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