THE ROLE OF CUES, SELF-EFFICACY, LEVEL OF WORRY, AND HIGH-RISK BEHAVIORS IN COLLEGE-STUDENT CONDOM USE

An anonymous survey, developed to pursue correlates of condom use, was administered to 879 college students. The survey consisted of a varie ty of single-item measures of demographics and sexual behavior, as wel l as five instruments which assessed self-efficacy, perceived barriers , perceived susceptibility to HIV/AIDS/STDs, cues, and perceived norms . A discriminant function analysis was conducted to test the ability o f the variables to distinguish between three condom user groups. Measu res assessing cues to condom action, number of sex partners, oral cont raceptive use, frequency of drunkenness during sexual intercourse, fre quency of worrying about contracting HIV/STDs, and dimensions of self- efficacy were effective in discriminating between the condom user grou ps. Scale development issues, implications of these findings, and reco mmendations for future research are presented.