Beliefs underlying eating better and moving more: Lessons learned from comparative salient belief elicitations with adults and youths

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 640, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-100

  Middlestadt, Susan E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; behavior; elicitation; obesity; overweight; reasoned action; salient beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857678468     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716211425015     Document Type: Article

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