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Table 2.

Spearman correlations among outcome and explanatory variables

	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
^bBBVs/STIs Protective Practice [1]	.325^a	.258^a	-.395^a	.311^a	.257^a	-.265^a	.159
Age [2]		.358^a	-.231^a	.268^a	.352^a	-.254^a	.179^*
BBVs/STIs Prevention Knowledge [3]			-.250^a	.346^a	.460^a	−.105	.326^a
Sexual Acculturation [4]				-.282^a	−.154	.206^*	−.079
Emotional Social Support [5]					.463^a	-.241^a	.416^a
Access to Sexual Health Information [6]						−.088	.419^a
Conservative Sexual Norms [7]							.039
Efficacy Belief [8]

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

^bOutcome variable

^cThe numbers in the column correspond with the numbers in the square brackets in the row, indicating the appropriate variables