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Injunctive and descriptive norms effect on physical activity
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE GREEN BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTIVE NORMS SCALE
… was developed to measure employee green behavior descriptive norms, which are a source of influence on employee green behaviors that develops from observing others’ behaviors. Initial items and expected scale structure for the Employee Green Behavior Descriptive Norms Scale were developed based on …
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Hiding in Plain Sites: The Role of Implied Descriptive Norms on Littering Behavior
… on prior research 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 …
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Evaluation of a Web-based Intervention for College Marijuana Use
… in changing marijuana involvement and perceived norms in undergraduates. Participants were 317 undergraduates (52% female, 78% White) who reported marijuana use within the month preceding baseline. Conditions were the e-TOKE program or assessment only, crossed with brief vs. extensive baseline …
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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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The Effects of Injunctive and Descriptive Normative Influence on Stigmatizing Attitudes toward Individuals with Mental Illness
… 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 frequency with which …
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Prospective Associations Between Older Adults' Social Connections and Trajectories of Change in Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… latent growth curve modelling. Injunctive and descriptive norms did not significantly change over time. Social network and relatedness had a negative linear change whereas social support amount and quality had a positive linear change. Social participation and light-intensity physical activity …
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A Comparison of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Brief Interventions for College Drinkers
… students of their peers' alcohol use (DN: descriptive norm) and their 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 …
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Gender Differences In College Student Drinking: The Relations Of Social And Cognitive Constructs
… sought to 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. …
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Testing of a Brief Internet Cyberbullying Prevention Program in College Students
… cyberbullying, decrease positive injunctive and descriptive norms about cyberbullying, and reduce intentions to cyberbully and cyberbullying behaviors.</p> <p>One hundred sixty-seven college students participated in the study. The study was evaluated using a pretest/one-month follow-up design. …
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Measuring Engagement in Strategic Clinical Networks in Alberta: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Study
… TPB constructs intention, attitude, subjective norms, descriptive norms, and perceived behavioural control. Nine SCNs participated in the study (23% - response rate). Score validity evidence was established through content, internal structure (reliability), and relationships between variables …
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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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Increasing Help-Seeking Among People with Depression: An Empirical Assessment of a Static and Trending Norms Approach
… examined whether making static and trending norms salient through persuasive messaging could increase help-seeking inclinations (i.e., attitudes, expectations, and intentions) among people with depression. Study 1 indicated that people with depressive symptomatology significantly …
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Mediators of change in the stigmatization of depression among Caucasian and Asian populations
… regarding people with depression and perceived norms. At least one week afterward, participants completed the second part of Study 1, where they were presented with contrived articles highlighting a biological cause for depression, a contextual causal for depression, or hope for recovery from …
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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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Salient Beliefs and Social Influence on Intentions to Misuse Prescription Opioid Pain Relieving Drugs for Recreational Purposes: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
… for recreational purposes. In this model, descriptive norm was associated with the greatest increase in odds of intention to misuse prescription opioids for recreational purposes (OR=1.37, 95% CI: 1.23 – 1.54, p<.001), folloby subjective norm (OR=1.33, 95% CI: 1.20 – 1.48, p<.001), and …
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An examination of descriptive and injunctive norms as antecedents to psychological reactance
… primary ways. 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 …
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The processing of two types of Chinese idioms by L1 and L2 speakers
… also contribute an idiom database that provides descriptive norms for further studies on idiom processing. Native speakers’ ratings and different processing patterns observed for GYYs and CYs provide a psycholinguistic account to distinguish the two types of idioms. Chinese learners’ thought …
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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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Bringing Identity To The Forefront: The Benefits Of Highlighting Identity And Diversity
… Black men. Positive feedback seems to create new descriptive norms for pro-diversity behavior that councilors are motivated to maintain. Together, my dissertation illuminates the previously unexplored benefits of strategically highlighting marginalized identity, diversity, and bias, suggesting …
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