Psychosocial predictors of reported behavior change in homosexual men at risk for AIDS.

Carol-Ann Emmons, Jill G. Joseph, Ronald C. Kessler, Camille B. Wortman, Susanne B. Montgomery, and David G. Ostrow are with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This work was supported by research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (2 R01 MH39346-02A1) and the University of Michigan. The authors are grateful to Anita DeLongis for comments made on an earlier draft. Please refer questions, comments, and requests for reprints to Jill G. Joseph, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. This article investigates the relationship between psychosocial factors and gay men’s attempts to change their sexual behavior in response to the threat of AIDS. Questionnaire data collected from 909 homosexual men at risk of AIDS were used to quantify potential psychosocial predictors of health behavior. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the relationship between these predictor variables and five