Table 1.
Items included in each social cognitive theory construct
| SCT constructs | Items | Responses |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly disagree |
Strongly agree | |||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1. Self-efficacy (most recent partner) | Can use a condom even if most recent sex partner does not want to | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Can use a condom every time you have sex with most recent sex partner | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Can use a condom even if want to feel close with most recent sex partner | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Can use condom even if you are making up with most recent sex partner after a fight | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Can use condom even high or drunk with most recent sex partner | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 2. Self-control self-efficacy | I could stop having sex: To get a condom even if I'm really turned on |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| If no condom was available | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Even if it meant getting dressed and going to the store | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Even with a really hot new partner | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Even with someone I want to have a relationship with | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Even with someone I am in love with | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 3. Sexual self-efficacy | I am sure that I can: Talk with partner about sexual past and our risk of getting STDs and AIDS from each other |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Go without sex until partner has had check up for STDs and doesn't have any | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| break up with a partner who puts me at risk of getting STDs | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Avoid having sex when I am drunk, or high on drugs | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Get to know potential partners better before having sex with them | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Have fewer sex partners in the next 3 months, than in the past 3 months | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Have sex with only one partner in the next 3 months | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Go without having sex for the next 3 months | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Discuss using condoms with my partners | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Keep condoms where I will have them nearby when I need them | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Use condoms more often | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Use condoms until my partner has had a check-up for STDs, and doesn’t have any | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Use condoms until my partner has been tested for HIV (AIDS), and is HIV negative | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Use a condom with my MAIN partner EVERY TIME we have vaginal or anal sex | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Use a condom with partners OTHER THAN my main partner, EVERY TIME we have vaginal or anal sex | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 4. Hedonistic outcomes | Condoms ruin the mood | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Sex doesn’t feel as good when you use a condom | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Sex with condoms doesn’t feel natural | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Using condoms breaks up the rhythm of sex | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 5. Partner expect outcomes (most recent partner) | I think my most recent sex partner would: Be proud of me if I asked to use condoms |
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Be supportive if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Appreciate it if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Be mad at me if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Break up with me if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Think I have other partners if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Be jealous if I asked to use condoms | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 6. Risk perception | If I don’t use condoms, I could get infected with an STD or HIV in the next 3 months | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Unless I change my behaviour, I am likely to get an STD or HIV | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| If I don’t reduce the number of people I have unprotected sex with, I could get infected with a STD or HIV | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| If I keep having unprotected sex with my partner(s), I could get infected with a STD or HIV | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Sometimes I think that it’s only a matter of time before I get an STD or HIV | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
SCT, social cognitive theory; STD, sexually transmitted disease.