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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Injunctive Norms"”.
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A Comparison of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Brief Interventions for College Drinkers
… peers' acceptability of excessive drinking (IN: injunctive norm). Normative re-education interventions have traditionally focused on changing descriptive norms even though the Theory of Normative Conduct identifies both DN and IN as beliefs that motivate behavior. The current study developed a …
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An examination of descriptive and injunctive norms as antecedents to psychological reactance
… First, by examining the role of descriptive and injunctive norms messages as antecedents to freedom threat and reactance. Second, by examining message elaboration as an antecedent and moderator of the reactance process. In Study 1, college students (N = 405) were randomly assigned to view print …
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The Influence of Social Norms on Athletes' Alcohol-Related Decision Making for Others
… of athletes, with a focus on the effect of injunctive norms on decision making. Based on social values theory, it was expected that decisions made for others would align more closely with the injunctive norms in comparison to self-decisions. Online surveys were administered to 285 college …
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Testing For A Descriptive And Injunctive Norm Interaction In Promoting Health Behavior
<p>Social norms-based interventions have demonstrated efficacy as tools for behavior change interventions. Nonetheless, there is some theoretical and empirical evidence that the efficacy of injunctive norms-based appeals can be undermined by their tendency to 1) arouse psychological reactance among …
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Gender Differences In College Student Drinking: The Relations Of Social And Cognitive Constructs
… examine the social (peer modeling, descriptive norms, injunctive norms, and parental monitoring) and cognitive (alcohol expectancies and drinking motives) factors that contribute to college drinking, in addition to examining whether gender differences existed among these variables. Participants …
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Priming, social norms, and eating behavior: An investigation of the impact of food advertisements and norms on consumption
… understand how food advertisements and social norms affect the eating behavior of children. Past studies have shown that children increase their consumption of food after seeing advertisements for unhealthy foods compared to children who see ads that are not promoting food. However, little is …
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Zika Message Analysis
… of behavioral intention included descriptive and injunctive norms, or the perceptions of others’ beliefs and behaviors toward a recommended health behavior. Conclusions from the current study aid in further understanding how to create influential and effective behavior-change health messages.</p>
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Intentions to engage in a meat-reduced diet: an application of the integrative model of behavioural prediction
… instrumental attitude, experiential attitude and injunctive norms. This study makes three primary contributions. Firstly, a theoretical contribution, through providing insight into how behavioural themes and beliefs materialise into changes in meat-consumption. Secondly, marketing practitioners …
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Guy Time: The Effects Of Men's Male Friends On Their Heavy Drinking, Consensual Sexual Behaviors, And Sexual Assault Perpetration
… of social influences, including descriptive and injunctive norms, overt pressure, and modeling affect adolescents' and college students' heavy drinking, consensual sexual experiences, and sexual assaults. The construct of peer influence has been measured in many different ways, and little …
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Losing our lakes: an assessment of the human dimensions of lakeshore landowner shoreland management
… to evaluate lakeshore homeowners' attitudes, norms and self-efficacy for restoring a native vegetative buffer. Five belief evaluations (decrease maintenance β = .05, increase water quality β = .058, be attractive β = .103, impede recreation β = .046, and create privacy β = -.028 one …
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The Effects of Injunctive and Descriptive Normative Influence on Stigmatizing Attitudes toward Individuals with Mental Illness
… and how it may be reduced. Theories regarding injunctive and descriptive norms may provide such insight. It is known that injunctive norms (what an individual’s peer group believes “should” or “ought to” be with regard to public behavior, beliefs, and attitudes) and descriptive norms (the …
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Adolescent smoking and social norms: an appraisal of theory and application of social norms to understand risk factors for smoking and sensitivity to normative influence
… explored in Chapter 2. <br/><br/>While social norms are important determinants of smoking behaviour, they are not universal across all contexts. For example, in low-middle-income countries tobacco advertising is more prominent and smoke-free regulatory frameworks are not consistently …
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Hiding in Plain Sites: The Role of Implied Descriptive Norms on Littering Behavior
… highlighting the importance of descriptive norms on littering behavior (Bergquist et al., 2021; Cialdini et al., 1990). Previous research has shown that people are more likely to litter into already littered environments than into sites free of litter. There is contradictory research on the …
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The Impact of Normative Beliefs, Religion, and Personality on College Drinking Behavior
Despite efforts to decrease the high rates of alcohol consumption seen across many American college campuses, alcohol related problems continue to be an issue for several students ages 18-24. Past research has indicated that several factors may play a role in influencing one’s decision of whether …