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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"injunctive norm"”.
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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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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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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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A Comparison of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Brief Interventions for College Drinkers
… 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 DN and IN as …
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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?
… Location, disgust, user preference, personal norm. • Hygienic latrine regular use: Gender, vulnerability perception, Instrumental beliefs, user preference, descriptive norm. • Handwashing with soap: Knowledge, user preference, disgust, volitional self-efficacy. • Forgetting handwashing with …
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The Influence of Evidence-Based Sex Discrimination Policies on Women’s Perceptions of Organizational Climate, Sexism, and Identity Safety
… policy – a broad definition of sexism, an injunctive norm, and a transparent reporting plan – was effective in shifting at least one aspect of perceived organizational climate, operationalized as gender diversity, inclusion of women, justice, and leadership. Across all three sub-studies, …
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Using an extended theory of planned behaviour to investigate sleep impaired driving
… hours of wakefulness in all three age groups. Injunctive norm was a consistent predictor in all groups. The model predicted a subjective measure of driving after 15 or more hours of wakefulness but failed to predict a more objective measure, obtained from the young adults. Both the young …
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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 …