Table 1.

Behavioral Beliefs Associated With Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination and Correlations With HPV Vaccine Attitudes.

Behavioral beliefs	Belief strength (bi)		Outcome evaluation (ei)		biei		Correlation biei with attitude
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Physical advantages
It would make me healthier	3.29	1.02	4.34	0.70	14.48	5.54	.42*
It would prevent me from getting genital and anal warts	3.86	1.00	4.31	0.86	16.84	5.86	.40*
It would prevent me from getting anal cancer	3.66	1.04	4.40	0.86	16.31	5.97	.39*
Psychological advantages
Feel protected from HPV	4.11	0.85	3.73	1.00	15.64	5.88	.51*
Feel like there is one less thing to worry about	3.89	1.06	3.98	1.00	15.90	6.56	.47*
Less likely to spread HPV to future sex partner(s)	4.22	0.86	4.11	0.94	17.64	5.90	.39*
Expectancy-value index (Σbiei)					96.76	29.34	.53*
Disadvantages
I will contract HPV from the vaccinea	1.98	1.11	—	—	—	—	−.17*
Not completely protected from future HPV infectionsa	2.80	1.06	—	—	—	—	−.22*
The vaccine may not work for mea	2.54	0.99	—	—	—	—	−.26*
I would have side effects	2.69	1.00	2.79	0.92	7.83	4.34	−.25*

Note. N = 575. Belief strength and outcome evaluation were measured on a 5-point bipolar scales. b_ie_i Ranges from 1 to 25 with higher values indicating likely and important beliefs. Σb_ie_i Ranges from 1 to 150.

^aOutcome evaluation was not assessed. Correlation coefficient represents correlation with belief strength and at3titude.

^*p < .05.