caa a22 4500 475739221 CHVBK 20180406123455.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005199725666 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005199725666 Self-Efficacy, Scripts of Love and Intention to Use Condoms Among Norwegian Adolescents [Elektronische Daten] [Ingela Kvalem, Bente Træen] The knowledge of how self-efficacy works within sexual scripts is limited. In the context of sexual script theory, this paper aims at focusing on the relationship between contraceptive self-efficacy and the intention to use condoms among Norwegian adolescents. The data is based on a stratified sample of 920 adolescents aged 16-20 years in a Norwegian county. Data were collected by means of questionnaires. Fifty-two percent of girls and 41.4% of the boys had had coital experience. Girls reported a somewhat higher contraceptive self-efficacy than boys did. This gender difference was mostly represented by the girls' belief in their capability to prevent undesired sexual intercourse, and their capability to use contraception in a situation where they were very sexually aroused. There was a clear connection between the adolescents' actual use of condoms at the most recent occasion of sexual intercourse and their intention to do so the next time. Boys who were in love with their partner were more likely to perceive themselves as capable of communicating with their partner about contraception in the sexual context, which in turn increased their intention of using condoms the next time. This may reflect boys acting in accordance with their sexual script. The girls' intention to use condoms the next time was not influenced by their contraceptive self-efficacy to the same degree as the boy's intention was. Acting within their sexual script and using oral contraceptives had greater influence on the girl's contraceptive self-efficacy than using a condom did. This study points to the importance of anchoring health preventive messages in the social and sexual realities of adolescents by focusing on the positive sides of sexuality. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Kvalem Ingela Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Box 1094 Blindern, N-0317, Oslo, Norway aut Træen Bente Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Norway aut Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/3(2000-06-01), 337-353 0047-2891 29:3<337 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005199725666 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005199725666 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kvalem Ingela Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Box 1094 Blindern, N-0317, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Træen Bente Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/3(2000-06-01), 337-353 0047-2891 29:3<337 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer