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Learning Objective 1: achieve an understanding of the relationship between urban Jamaican women's general self-efficacy and social support.
Learning Objective 2: achieve an understanding of the relationship between urban Jamaican women's general self-efficacy and negotiation of safer sex behaviors.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between urban Jamaican women’s general self-efficacy, social support, and negotiation of safer sex behaviors. Four hypotheses determined the relationships of general self-efficacy to social support, general self-efficacy to safer sex behaviors, social support to safer sex behaviors, and the contributions of general self-efficacy and social support to negotiation of safer sex behaviors.
Methods:
For this quantitative cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of 447 women was surveyed from two cities in
Results:
A modest but positive relationship was found between urban Jamaican women’s general self-efficacy and social support (r = .33, p < .01). A modest but positive correlation was found between urban Jamaican women’s general self-efficacy and negotiation of safer sex behavior (r = .26, p < .01). A weak but positive relationship was found between urban Jamaican women’s social support and negotiation of safer sex behavior (r = .09, p < .05). For the independent and combined contributions of general self-efficacy and social support to negotiation of safer sex behavior, general self-efficacy provided a significant contribution (p = .000) but social support did not (p = .943).
Conclusion:
Study results contribute empirical evidence of the role of general self-efficacy, but not social support, toward the design of effective preventive interventions to help urban Jamaican women practice safer sex behaviors. Interventions aimed at increasing general self-efficacy may help reduce their risks and incidence of HIV/AIDS.