Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1164-1180

  Gibbons, Frederick X ^a,b   Gerrard, Meg ^a,b   Blanton, Hart ^a,b,c   Russell, Daniel W ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOGIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0032067516     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1164     Document Type: Article

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