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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"injunctive"”.
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Injunctive and descriptive norms effect on physical activity
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Testing For A Descriptive And Injunctive Norm Interaction In Promoting Health Behavior
… and empirical evidence that the efficacy of injunctive norms-based appeals can be undermined by their tendency to 1) arouse psychological reactance among participants, and 2) inadvertently imply that few others are completing the target behavior. The author hypothesizes that supplementing an …
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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 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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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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Hiding in Plain Sites: The Role of Implied Descriptive Norms on Littering Behavior
… about litter salience, the descriptive norm, the injunctive norm, behavioral intentions, and underdetection. Results indicated higher salience in the fully littered and single piece of litter conditions, than in the clean environment. The descriptive norm was weaker in the one-piece litter …
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Testing of a Brief Internet Cyberbullying Prevention Program in College Students
… toward 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 …
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Shootings on Three Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Qualitative Comparative Case Study
… resources, social involvement, training, and injunctive relief protections for open-campus concepts. Keywords: campus shootings, funding, gun violence, HBCU, injunctive relief, open-campus concept, social involvement.
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Gender Differences In College Student Drinking: The Relations Of Social And Cognitive Constructs
… 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 for …
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Priming, social norms, and eating behavior: An investigation of the impact of food advertisements and norms on consumption
… of normative social behavior (descriptive norms, injunctive norms, outcome expectations, peer communication, group identity, and ego involvement) and new moderators proposed in this paper (parental monitoring, modeling, restrictive feeding style). Participants were 196 children between the ages of …
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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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JUDICIAL COLLECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN A MULTILEVEL EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. A FOCUS ON THE ITALIAN CLASS ACTION REGIME
… the Italian 2019 reform which introduced a dual (injunctive and compensatory) collective procedure of general application. For this purpose, the investigation analyses, also with a comparative lens, the constitutional foundations of collective enforcement (as opposed to individual one), the …
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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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An analysis of the laws affecting public school administrators, teachers, service and auxiliary personnel in West Virginia
… successful plaintiffs have. been able to secure injunctive relief as well as damages. from school officials and boards of education, both now considered "persons" under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871. Other legal provisions studied in relationship to West Virginia public school …
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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
… the inclusion of descriptive norms, group ID and injunctive norms (R2 = .323). Finally, I sought to connect risk theory with behavioral theory and propose a framework for doing so. I used a case study of Minnesota shoreland landowners with native vegetative buffers for integrating risk and …
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Residence hall sense of community in physical and technology-based spaces: Implications for alcohol-related attitudes and behaviors
… interaction was measured. SOC and both injunctive and descriptive peer norms were measured, along with frequency of alcohol use, interest in alcohol-free social programming, support for alcohol-related hall policies, and alcohol use in one’s own hall. Findings suggested that both …
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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
… were tested using 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 …
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What are the factors associated with sanitation and hygiene behaviours, an investigation in Giong Trom district, Ben Tre province in the Mekong river Delta region of Vietnam?
… user preference, disgust, descriptive norm, injunctive norm, volitional self-efficacy, motivational self-efficacy. In addition, the thesis didn't find clear cut evidence on the health impact of different sanitation conditions due to the fact that it isn't possible to attribute any diseases …
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