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 SystemBackground: 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 +3 more
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Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
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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 +5 more
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Social Norms: Interactions Between Descriptive and Injunctive Norms (part 2)
, 2023 The present project is designed to examine how individual’s estimation of normative behavior in response to injunctive norms. A previous study on the same project led to the conclusion that individual differences in the estimation of normative behavior ...
Benjamin Douglas
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Licence Loss: Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well‐being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out‐of ...
David Pålsson +5 more
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Investigating the Efficacy of Social Norms Messages to Reduce Smartphone Use Among Young Drivers
Journal of Road SafetyYoung 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 +2 more
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Behavioral interventions to reduce demand for threatened freshwater turtles as pets
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Growing demand for freshwater turtles as pets has fueled illegal trade and accelerated wild population declines, underscoring the need for theory‐based demand‐reduction interventions. We conducted a three‐part randomized controlled trial with active turtle keepers (n = 1800) in China to test conservation‐ and legality‐framed messages by ...
Wuji Zheng +9 more
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The Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Peer Norms on Young Adult Alcohol Use [PDF]
, 2015 Descriptive peer norms refer to one’s perception of their peer’s alcohol use, while injunctive peer norms refer to one’s perception of their peer’s approval of alcohol use.
DeTore, Samantha Paige
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Testing the influence of harm reduction messages on health risk attitudes, injunctive norms and perceived behavioral control. [PDF]
Harm Reduct J, 2023 Katz SJ, Cohen E, Hatsukami D.
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Injunctive and Descriptive Peer Group Norms and the Academic Adjustment of Rural Early Adolescents
, 2010 This study integrates diverse literatures on peer group influence by conceptualizing and examining the relationship of peer group injunctive norms to the academic adjustment of a large and ethnically diverse sample of rural early adolescents’ academic ...
Jill V. Hamm +3 more
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