Correlates of STI testing among vocational school students in the Netherlands

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Pearson's correlations (r) with intention and standardized regression coefficients (β) for predictors of intention (N = 501).

		r	β	p
Constant				0.00
Age		0.21 **	0.09	0.02
Sex (female)		0.10 *	-0.07	0.05
Etnicity^a:: Surinamese		n.s.	-0.00	0.96
Etnicity^a: Turkish		n.s.	0.03	0.57
Etnicity^a: : Moroccan		n.s.	0.02	0.68
Etnicity^a: : Antillean		0.13 ***	0.06	0.14
Etnicity^a: : Cape Verdean		0.11 *	0.03	0.51
Etnicity^a: : other non-Western		n.s.	0.05	0.19
Religion^b: Christian		0.13 **	0.01	0.76
Religion^b: Muslim		n.s.	0.04	0.55
Religion^b: Other		n.s.	0.04	0.40
Testing history previous STI test		0.25 **	0.13	0.00
Attitude		0.49 **	0.35	0.00
Injunctive norm - friends and parents		0.38 **	0.18	0.00
Descriptive norm - friends		0.26 **	0.10	0.01
Perceived susceptibility		0.33 **	0.15	0.00
Test site characteristics		0.22 **	0.11	0.00
	R²	0.39

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