Using the integrative model of behavioral prediction to understand college students' STI testing beliefs, intentions, and behaviors.

Objectives: To identify salient behavioral determinants related to STI testing among college students by testing a model based on the integrative model of behavioral (IMBP) prediction.

Participants: 265 undergraduate students from a large university in the Southeastern US.

Methods: Formative and survey research to test an IMBP-based model that explores the relationships between determinants and STI testing intention and behavior.

"It Just Kind of Happens": College Students' Rationalizations for Blackout Drinking.

Nearly half of college students engage in binge drinking, and blackouts (i.e., episodes of periodic memory loss) represent one common consequence of this behavior.

Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction to Understand College Students' Hookup Sex Beliefs, Intentions, and Behaviors.

Guided by the integrated model of behavioral prediction, this study explored the attitudinal, normative, and perceived control beliefs that predict college student hookup intentions and behavior. We first conducted elicitation research with six focus groups of undergraduate students to identify salient beliefs to inform questionnaire development, and then we collected and analyzed questionnaire data from 268 undergraduate students to explore the direct and indirect determinants that drive hookup behaviors. We compared proposed models that tested separate paths from determinants to intention and behavior to theoretical models that treated intention as a mediator of the determinant-behavior relationship.