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How gender- and violence-related norms affect self-esteem among adolescent refugee girls living in Ethiopia

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2018
Background. Evidence suggests adolescent self-esteem is influenced by beliefs of how individuals in their reference group perceive them.
L. Stark, K. Asghar, I. Seff, B. Cislaghi, G. Yu, T. Tesfay Gessesse, J. Eoomkham, A. Assazenew Baysa, K. Falb   +8 more
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Using peer injunctive norms to predict early adolescent cigarette smoking intentions [PDF]

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2013
AbstractThe present study investigated the importance of the perceived injunctive norm to predict early adolescent cigarette smoking intentions. A total of 271 sixth graders completed a survey that included perceived prevalence of friend smoking (descriptive norm), perceptions of friends' disapproval of smoking (injunctive norm), and future smoking ...
Adam C, Zaleski, Patricia A, Aloise-Young   +1 more
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Exposure to images showing (non)adherence to physical distancing rules: Effect on adherence behavior and perceived social norms.

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionAdherence to behavioral measures such as physical distancing are key to mitigating the effects of viral pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Adherence depends in part on people's perception of what others do (descriptive norms) or approve
Sanne Raghoebar, Joyce Delnoij, Bart A Kamphorst, Henk Broekhuizen   +3 more
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Coevolution of norm psychology and cooperation through exapted conformity

Evolutionary Human Sciences
People willingly follow norms and values, often incurring material costs. This behaviour supposedly stems from evolved norm psychology, contributing to large-scale cooperation among humans.
Yuta Kido, Masanori Takezawa
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Exploring the Correlation between Different Types of Subjective Norms and High-Risk Behaviors: A Cross-Sectional Study on College Students in Shiraz, Iran (2021) [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
Background: Youth is a unique stage in everyone’s life. During this period, individuals often engage in high-risk behaviors, including high-speed driving, smoking, sexual behaviors, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating habits, and ...
Leila Ghahremani, Atefeh Mohammadi, Masoud Karimi, Yousef Asli Khalan   +3 more
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Daily Associations Between Injunctive Drinking Norms and Alcohol Consumption

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Perception of others' approval of alcohol use (i.e., injunctive drinking norms) is strongly predictive of alcohol use, particularly among young adults. Although between-person injunctive norms predict alcohol use, there is evidence of within-person fluctuations in the relationship between norms and drinking.
Warner, Olivia M., Porter, Anna M., Trull, Timothy J., McCarthy, Denis M.   +3 more
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Injunctive norms and associations with smoking susceptibility in Hong Kong adolescents

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Aim and objective Injunctive norms about smoking, the perceived approval or acceptability of smoking from friends or wider peer group, have rarely been studied outside the Western world.
Lok T. Leung, Sai Y. Ho, Nan Jiang, Man P. Wang, Jianjiu Chen, Tai H. Lam   +5 more
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Investigating the Efficacy of Social Norms Messages to Reduce Smartphone Use Among Young Drivers

Journal of Road Safety
Young drivers are over-represented in road crashes associated with smartphone use. While it is widely acknowledged that norms influence young drivers' smartphone use, there is a dearth of research investigating the effectiveness of social norms messages ...
Cassandra Gauld, Tanya Craft, Marcin Stepnik   +2 more
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Effects of prosocial norms on consumers’ social value perceptions, attitudes, and repurchase intentions toward green products [PDF]

Present Environment and Sustainable Development
Social value of green products have received considerable attention. Because few scholars have investigated the effects of prosocial norms on the formation of social value perceptions, this article explores whether prosocial descriptive and injunctive ...
Edward Shih-Tse WANG, Shu-Chun CHANG, Fang-Yu LI   +2 more
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The Impact of Social Norms on Adolescents’ Self-Presentation Practices on Social Media

Social Media + Society
Social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat offer adolescents many opportunities to control how other users see and perceive them. By observing their peers’ self-presentations and receiving feedback on their own self-presentations from them ...
Arne Freya Zillich, Annika Wunderlich
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