Title: Relational Commitment and Threats to Relationship Maintenance Goals: Influences on Condom Use

Study Part 1

Hypothesis:

1.       People who are highly committed to a relationship will be less likely to request to use condom than are people who are less committed to a relationship.

2.       People who believe that requesting a condom may threaten the relationship will be less likely to request a condom than are people who do not believe that the relationship will be threatened.

IV1: High/Low commitment

IV2: High/Low threat requesting a condom poses to relationship (include subjective view)

DV: Willingness to use / request to use a condom

Results:

1.       ↑ commitment = ↓ condom use (p < .01)

2.       ↑ perceived threat = ↓ condom use (p < .05)

Study Part 2

Regression analysis (finding how one specific IV influences the DV) is used on the same IVs and DV.

Results:

1.       Perceived threat to a relationship due to initiating the use of condom has the strongest influence in predicting behavioural intention of condom use (p < .01). ↑ perceived threat = ↓ condom use

2.       Commitment to relationship also proved to be a significant predictor of behavioural intention of condom use (p < .01) such that ↓ commitment = ↑ condom use, like in new relationship.

Results from T-test on gender difference:

1.       Commitment: women > men (p < .05)

2.       Concern about threat in maintaining relationship: women > men (p < .05)