Citation

Boer H, Tshilidzi Mashamba M. Br. J. Health Psychol. 2007; 12(1): 51-63.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, British Psychological Society)

DOI

10.1348/135910706X102104

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Objectives. In South Africa, a gender power imbalance exists which may prevent women from negotiating safe sexual encounters. In this study we tested which constructs from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) under these circumstances were most related to condom use intention. We hypothesized that in a situation of gender power imbalance self-efficacy would be a more salient correlate of intended condom use for females, while for males attitude to condoms and subjective norm would be more important.