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The Theory of Reasoned Action: Its Application To Aids-Preventive Behaviour Copyrighted Material INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Series Editor: MICHAEL ARGYLE, University of Oxford New Series Editor from Volume 29: W. 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TERRY, CYNTHIA GALLOIS and MALCOLM McCAMISH University of Queensland, Australia PERGAMON PRESS OXFORD • NEW YORK • SEOUL • TOKYO Copyrighted Material U.K. Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 OBW, England U.S.A. Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, New York 10591-5153, U.S.A. KOREA Pergamon Press Korea, K.P.O. Box 315, Seoul 110-603, Korea JAPAN Pergamon Press Japan, Tsunashima Building Annex, 3-20-12 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Copyright © 1993 Pergamon Press Ltd All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any fonn or by any means: electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without pennission in writing from the publishers. First edition 1993 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The theory of reasoned action: its application to AIDS-preventive behaviourl edited by Deborah J. Terry, Cynthia Gallois, and Malcolm McCamish. -- 1st ed. p. cm. --(International series in experimental social psychology; v. 28) Includes bibliographical references. J. AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Congresses. 2. Safe sex in AIDS prevention--Congresses. 3. Health behavior--Congresses. 4. Health attitudes--Congresses. 5. Australia. I. Terry, Deborah J. II. Gallois, Cynthia. III. McCamish, Malcolm. IV. Series. [DNLM: I. HIV Infections--prevention and control--Australia- congresses. 2. Sex Behavior--Australia--congresses. 3. Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice--congresses. WD 308 T396 1993] RA644.A25T46 1993 616.97'9205--dc20 DNLMIDLC ISBN 0-D8-041932-1- Printed and bound in Great Britain by BPCC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter Copyrighted Material Contents PREFACE lX LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Xlll INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN FISHBEIN xv 1. The Theory of Reasoned Action and Health Care Behaviour Deborah Terry, Cynthia Gallois, and Malcolm McCamish 2. Applying the Theory of Reasoned Action to the Prediction of AIDS-Preventive Behaviour 29 Virginia J. Lewis and Y oshihisa Kashima 3. Influences on Condom Use among Undergraduates: Testing the Theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behaviour 47 Joe Nucifora, Cynthia Gallois, and Yoshihisa Kashima 4. Predicting AIDS-Preventive Behaviour among Adolescents 65 Susan M. Moore, Doreen A. Rosenthal, and Jennifer Boldero 5. Attitudes Towards Condoms and the Theory of Reasoned Action 81 Michael W. Ross and Mary-Louise McLaws v Copyrighted Material vi Author Index 6. The Theory of Reasoned Action as Applied to AIDS Prevention for Australian Ethnic Groups 93 Ken Rigby, Birota Dietz and Stuart Sturgess 7. Extending the Theory of Reasoned Action: The Role of Health Beliefs 117 Peta Warwick, Deborah Terry, and Cynthia Gallois 8. Self-Efficacy Expectancies and the Theory of Reasoned Action 135 Deborah Terry 9. Theory of Reasoned Action and the Role of Perceived Risk in the Study of Safer Sex 153 Perri Timmins, Cynthia Gallois, Deborah Terry, Malcolm McCamish and Y oshihisa Kashima 10. Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action to the Measurement of Condom Use among Gay Men 169 Mary-Louise McLaws, Brian Oldenburg and Michael W. Ross 11. A Theory Based Intervention: The Theory of Reasoned Action in Action 185 Malcolm McCamish, Perri Timmins, Deborah Terry and Cynthia Gallois 12. The Theory of Reasoned Action and Problem-Focused Research 207 Y oshihisa Kashima and Cynthia Gallois 13. On the Need to Mind the Gap: On-Line versus off-Line Cognitions Underlying Sexual Risk Taking 227 Ron S. Gold 14. Flaws in the Theory of Reasoned Action 253 Susan Kippax and June Crawford EPILOGUE 271 Copyrighted Material Author Index vii REFERENCES 277 AUTHOR INDEX 315 SUBJECT INDEX 323 Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material Preface When AIDS first appeared in Australia in late 1982, the response from the community, particularly the gay community, was immediate; AIDS councils were soon set up in every major city in the country to deal with education, prevention, and support for people with AIDS. Government bodies were somewhat slower to act, but by the end of 1985, the Australian Government had established priorities, policy formulation was underway, and some programs were in place. Since the first Australian death from AIDS in 1983, the pattern of infections, largely in the gay community but with some cases resulting from contaminated blood products, identified us as what WHO was later to classify as a Pattern I country (i.e., a country where the majority of people are infected with HIV are gay or bisexual men). Australia is perhaps the only remaining classic Pattern I country in the world. With more than 16,000 notifications of HIV infection as of 30 September, 1992, the very large majority, more than 80%, have been infected through male homosexual or bisexual contact. Eight percent of notified infections have been through injecting drug use (one-third of whom have also had male-to male sexual contact), heterosexual contact accounts for just over 5 %, while those infected through contaminated blood or blood products, including haemophiliacs, account for a further 5.2%. With infected women forming less than 5% of the case load, the number of paediatric cases where transmission has occurred from an infected mother is understandably low, less than 0.5%. Similarly, the number of reported diagnoses for those between the ages of 13 and 19 is just over 2% of the total. Thus, the changing epidemiology of other Pattern I countries (see Lewis & Kashima, this volume) is almost imperceptible in Australia. While it would be wrong and indeed dangerous to underestimate the potential threat to injecting drug users, certain groups of heterosexuals and young people, it is important to acknowledge the important place pre vention has had on the Australian health agenda. Australia was the first country in the world to establish universal screening of the national blood supply. Through a variety of national committees, AIDS was successfully removed from the party-political agenda, so that a number of otherwise ix Copyrighted Material
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