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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2011 May 23;38(5):530–540. doi: 10.1177/1090198110385775

Table 1.

Results of Measurement Model for Behavioral Beliefs and Attitude Scale

Outcome Expectancies Independent Variable:
Sex Content Exposure
Independent Variable:
Outcome Expectancies
Independent Variable:
Belief Index
Dependent Variable:
Outcome Expectancies
Dependent Variable:
Belief Index
Dependent Variable:
Direct Measure Attitude Scale
If I have sexual intercourse in the next 12 months, it would… (A) Parameters (B) Parameters (C) Parameter

Make me feel that someone had taken advantage of me −.07 .23 .51
Make me feel good about myself −.06 .45 R2 = .27
Give me HIV/AIDS −.002 .23
Hurt my relationship with my partner .11 .24
Increase quality of relationship .01 .23
Increase feelings of intimacy between me and my partner .09 −.01
Give me pleasure .02 .72
Make my parents mad .06 .07
Please my partner .03 .15
Get me or partner pregnant −.01 .07
Gain the respect of my friends −.03 .04
Make my friends think badly of me .15 .18

Goodness of fit indices: χ2 = 1607, df = 67, p < .05, CFI = .16, RMSEA = .22, N = 460. Bold, italic coefficients are discernable from zero at .05 or less.