Understanding aids preventive behavior with casual and primary partners in homosexual men: The theory of planned behavior and the information-motivation-behavioral-skills model

Psychology and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 325-340

  de Wit, John B F ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a   de Vroome, Ernest M M ^a   Sandfort, Theo G M ^a   van Griensven, Godfried J P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AIDS prevention behaviors; Homosexual men; Sexual risk behavior; Social cognition models; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012013648     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440008401996     Document Type: Article

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