Texas Abstinence Educators' Self-Efficacy to Motivate Youth Sexual Abstinence Academic Article

abstract

• Authors examined self-efficacy to motivate abstinent behavior (among youth) in a sample of instructors teaching abstinence-onlyuntil- marriage education in Texas (N = 104). Sixty-one percent of the sample had been trained/certified to teach abstinence education. Instructors (mostly female and White) were more confident motivating students to maintain abstinent behavior than motivating change from sexual activity to abstinence (t = 9.354, df = 97). Regression modeling revealed "age" and "beliefs that abstinence education is theory-based" as significant predictors of confidence to motivate both abstinence maintenance and change. Additionally, ethnicity [being non-white ( = -.234, p =.030)] significantly predicted confidence to motivate behavior change. doi:10.1300/ J455v02n03_05 Copyright (c) by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

authors

• Goodson, Patricia
• Wilson, Kelly

published proceedings

• AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEXUALITY EDUCATION

author list (cited authors)

• Rasberry, C. N., Goodson, P., Buhi, E. R., Pruitt, B., Wilson, K., & Suther, S.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Rasberry, Catherine N||Goodson, Patricia||Buhi, Eric R||Pruitt, BE Buzz||Wilson, Kelly||Suther, Sandra

publication date

• September 2007

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• American Journal of Sexuality Education  Journal

keywords

• Abstinence Instructors
• Health Education
• Self-efficacy
• Sex Education
• Sexual Abstinence

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1300/J455v02n03_05

start page

• 59

end page

• 78

volume

• 2

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1300%2Fj455v02n03_05