An HIV researcher explored the factors that influenced condom use with a new partner (relationship less than 1 month old). The outcome measure was...

An HIV researcher explored the factors that influenced condom use with a new partner (relationship less than 1 month old). The outcome measure was whether a condom was used (use: condom used = 1, not used = 0). The predictor variables were mainly scales from the Condom Attitude Scale (CAS) by Sacco, Levine, Reed, and Thompson (1991): Gender; the degree to which the person views this relationship as ‘safe’ from sexually transmitted disease (Safety); the degree to which previous experience influences attitudes towards condom use (Sexexp); whether or not the couple used a condom in their previous encounter, 1 = condom used, 0 = not used, 2 = no previous encounter with this partner (Previous); the degree of self-control that a person has when it comes to condom use (Selfcon); the degree to which the person feels at risk from unprotected sex (Perceive). Previous research (Sacco, Rickman, Thompson, Levine, & Reed, 1993) has shown that gender, relationship safety and perceived risk predict condom use. Carry out an analysis using Condom.sav to verify these previous findings, and to test whether self-control, previous usage and sexual experience predict condom use.