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Psychosocial Correlates of Condom Use and their Relationship with Worry about STI and HIV in Native and Immigrant Adolescents in Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Ma Paz Bermúdez ,
Ángel Castro  and
Gualberto Buela-Casal
Ma Paz Bermúdez*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Ángel Castro
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Gualberto Buela-Casal
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada (Spain)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ma Paz Bermúdez. Departmento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Granada. Campus de Cartuja, s/n. 18011. Granada (Spain). Phone: +34-958161708. Fax: +34-958161708. E-mail: maripaz@ugr.es
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Abstract

The goal of this study was to analyze how worry about sexually-transmitted infections (STI) and HIV influences attitudes and self-efficacy towards condom use, HIV-related knowledge, HIV-perceived susceptibility and HIV-misconceptions in a multicultural sample in Spain. The sample was composed of 3,051 adolescents aged between 14 and 19 years old who lived in Spain. Of these, 67.7% were native Spaniards and the remaining 32.3% were Latin American immigrants. Results showed that worry about STI and HIV has a direct influence on condom use self-efficacy and HIV-knowledge and HIV-perceived susceptibility. Native Spanish adolescents showed higher positive attitudes towards condom use, greater HIV-knowledge and HIV-perceived susceptibility, and lower negative attitudes towards condoms use and HIV-misconceptions than Latin American adolescents. In the discussion, the importance of worry about STI and HIV is highlighted as a mediator variable that can predict risky sexual behavior and is related to cultural origin.

El objetivo principal de este estudio fue analizar cómo la preocupación hacia las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) y hacia el VIH influyen en las actitudes y en la autoeficacia hacia el uso del preservativo y en el conocimiento y la susceptibilidad ante el VIH en una muestra multicultural en España. En la investigación participaron 3051 adolescentes de entre 14 y 19 años residentes en España, de los que el 67,7% fueron autóctonos españoles y el 32,3% restante fueron inmigrantes de origen latinoamericano. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la preocupación hacia las ITS y hacia el VIH ejercen una influencia directa sobre la autoeficacia en el uso del preservativo y sobre el conocimiento y la susceptibilidad ante el VIH. Los adolescentes autóctonos mostraron más actitudes positivas hacia el uso del preservativo, más conocimiento y susceptibilidad ante el VIH y menos actitudes negativas hacia el preservativo e ideas erróneas sobre el VIH que los adolescentes latinoamericanos. En la discusión se resalta la importancia de la preocupación hacia las ITS y hacia el VIH como variable mediadora para la predicción de las conductas sexuales de riesgo y su relación con el origen cultural.

Keywords

STI/HIVcondomsadolescentsinmigrantsSpainETS/VIHpreservativosadolescentesinmigrantesEspaña
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , November 2011 , pp. 746 - 754
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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