Condom use behavioural skills mediate the relationship between condom use motivation and condom use behaviour among young adult heterosexual males: An information-motivation-behavioural skills analysis

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between condom use motivation and condom use behavioural skills, and their direct and mediated influence on condom use consistency from the perspective of the Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills (IMB) model of health behaviour. Participants were 149 currently sexually active heterosexual males aged 18–24 (M=18.6). The motivation component of the IMB model was operationalized with measures of attitudes toward condoms and perceptions of social norms, while assessing the implementation of negotiation strategies that can be used to obtain or avoid condom use operationalized the behavioural skills component. Results indicated that condom use motivation was positively correlated with specific condom use obtaining strategies, and condom use consistency was negatively correlated with certain condom use avoiding strategies. Moreover, specific condom negotiation strategies partially mediated the relationships between motivational constructs and condom use consistency. These findings confirm the propositions of the IMB model, illustrate the utility of measurement of behavioural skills in relation to implementation of specific actions, and highlight the need for interventions to focus on dyadic negotiation and communication strategies as important influences on condom use consistency. Implications for future research and theoretical refinement are discussed.

Perceived barriers and rewards to sexual consent communication: A qualitative analysis

“… Shumlich and Fisher’s (2019) application of the IMB model, a model that has been used to study a range of sexual and reproductive health behaviours (e.g. Camilleri et al, 2015 ), to sexual consent communication further develops and formalizes these perceived barriers in a number of ways. First, they outline the role of both perceived rewards and costs of consent communication.…”

Comunicación y negociación como predictores del uso del condón en hombres privados de la libertad

“…Lo anterior parece relevante debido a que el desarrollo de estas habilidades puede promover que las personas adquieran un comportamiento sexual preventivo, tal y como se ha demostrados en diversas investigaciones (Camilleri et al, 2015;Kiene et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2014).…”

“…Robles, Frías, Moreno, Rodríguez y Barroso (2011) afirman que, para que esta habilidad se demuestre, es necesario ofrecer argumentos que convenzan a la pareja de usar condón, los que pueden estar basados en la información que se tiene respecto a la prevención y transmisión del VIH/sida; mencionan además que cuando las personas cuentan con dichas habilidades, serán más frecuentes sus relaciones sexuales protegidas. Otra conducta que se ha tomado en cuenta en este componente tiene que ver con la negociación del uso del condón, ya que cuando la persona sabe cómo hacerla, será más probable que la utilicen en sus relaciones sexuales (Camilleri, Kohut y Fisher, 2015).…”

The Effect of Passively Viewing a Consent Campaign Video on Attitudes Toward Rape

“…Because both of these elements are very different from how real-life rapes occur, it is possible that it could have been hard for participants to relate the video to the scenarios. This, however, could have increased the external validity of the video campaign because it is unlikely that media campaigns are able to demonstrate exactly what will happen in a real-life rape, which means, for such campaigns to be effective, the resulting attitudinal change needs to be applicable and generalizable to other non-consensual examples (Camilleri et al, 2015). A second reason is that there is no reason for our participants to engage with the video during its presentation (Fabiano et al, 2003;Binet and Field, 2009).…”