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Injunctive norms as social pressures: Does autonomy support moderate the relationship between injunctive norms and autonomy satisfaction in physical activity?

Psychology & Health, 2022
Objective: Despite the usefulness of social norms for changing behaviour, injunctive norms (i.e., perceptions of what others approve) from significant others tend to be a weak predictor of physical activity (PA) engagement. A potential explanation is that injunctive norms encompass pressuring social influence that undermines autonomous PA engagement ...
Jeemin Kim, Mark Eys, Jennifer Robertson-Wilson   +2 more
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Longitudinal associations between descriptive and injunctive norms on college drinking

Addictive Behaviors, 2023
Perceived norms of drinking prevalence (descriptive norms) and approval (injunctive norms) are among the most robust predictors of college student drinking, but the dynamic fluctuations of these relationships over time are less understood. We examined longitudinal associations of descriptive and injunctive norms on alcohol consumption, disaggregating ...
Joanne Angosta, Nicole A. Hall, Alyssa Rice, Chelsie M. Young, Lindsey M. Rodriguez, Clayton Neighbors   +5 more
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Understanding Perceptions of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Descriptive and Injunctive Norms

Psychiatric Quarterly, 2021
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a major public health concern. Web-based personalized feedback interventions (PFIs) may be a cost-effective and efficient way to treat NSSI. In order to develop a PFI, it is imperative to assess descriptive and injunctive norms. The current study examines descriptive and injunctive norms of NSSI within college students 
Jiwon Min, Susanna V. Lopez, Delaney S. Dunn, Thad R. Leffingwell, Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt   +4 more
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Injunctive Social Norms Primacy over Descriptive Social Norms in Retirement Savings Decisions

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
Consistent with the global trend to shift responsibility for retirement income provision from the public purse to individuals has been encouragement to save more and to manage investment strategy. Analyzing data from 2,300 respondents to a randomly distributed questionnaire, this article focuses on the motivational importance of social norms.
Gerry, Croy, Paul, Gerrans, Craig, Speelman   +2 more
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Injunctive Norms and the Division of a Surplus

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
An economic experiment is used to investigate the presence and properties of injunctive norms regarding the division of a surplus between those who contributed to its creation. The experiment involves asking subjects what outcome should (as opposed to would) occur in a coordination game in which players’ strategies are the two distributional rules: (i)
Nilss Olekalns, Hugh Sibly, Amy Cormany
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Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2015
Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms : Comment on Gelfand and ...
Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling
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Injunctive social norms of adults regarding teen dating violence

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2004
To assess applied injunctive social norms of adults regarding teen dating violence (TDV) and compare them with those regarding adult domestic violence (ADV).A total of 3679 California adults from six ethnic groups (roughly equal numbers of African-American, Hispanic, Korean-American, Vietnamese-American, other Asian-American, and white respondents ...
Catherine A, Taylor, Susan B, Sorenson
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Social sanctions in response to injunctive norm violations

Current Opinion in Psychology
Injunctive social norms are societal standards for how people are expected to behave. When individuals transgress these norms, they face social sanctions for their behavior. These sanctions can take many forms ranging from verbal or non-verbal reactions and from disapproval to ostracism.
Benjamin D, Douglas, Kendall, Holley, Naomi, Isenberg, Kevin R, Kennedy, Markus, Brauer   +4 more
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Descriptive, Injunctive, and Collective Norms: An Expansion of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior (TNSB)

Health Communication, 2021
We propose and test several hypotheses derived from the expanded theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) that also includes collective norms (with descriptive and injunctive norms). Data come from a quasi-experiment intervention to promote safer driving among adolescents in Serbia.
Rajiv N. Rimal, Hagere Yilma
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Descriptive and injunctive social norms’ interactive role in gambling behavior.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014
Social norms have a fundamental impact on behavior, yet little research has examined social norms regarding gambling and no research has examined possible interaction effects. The current study examined the interaction between perceived approval of gambling by others (i.e., injunctive norms) and perceived prevalence of gambling by others (i.e ...
Matthew K, Meisel, Adam S, Goodie
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