Activating Interpersonal Influence in the Prevention of Adolescent Tobacco Use: An Evaluation of Iowa's Program Against Smoking

Autor:	Virginia S. Daughety, Abran J. Salazar, Julie A. Burke, Samuel L. Becker
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Health (social science) Tobacco use Communication Interpersonal influence Perception media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Psychology Social psychology media_common Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Health Communication. 4:1-17
ISSN:	1532-7027 1041-0236
DOI:	10.1207/s15327027hc0401_1
Popis:	Knowledge and behavioral competitions were used to influence adolescents' smoking-relevant beliefs and subjective norms and, thereby, their smoking. These competitions were also expected to alter the influence adolescents exerted on one another, contributing indirectly to less smoking. These interventions were field tested in seven middle schools in three Iowa communities. Follow-up analyses more than 1 year after the competitions revealed that two belief indices (bad effects and short-term favorable effects) and two measures of subjective norms (adolescents' perceptions of friends' and families' attitudes toward smoking) were significant predictors of their concurrent smoking, accounting for almost twice as much of the variance in spring 1986 as they had in fall of 1984. We also found that the competitions modestly, but significantly, increased the number of bad effects and reduced the number of short-term favorable effects associated with smoking and increased adolescents' perceptions that their best fr...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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