Normative Misperceptions of Peer Seat Belt Use Among High School Students and Their Relationship to Personal Seat Belt Use

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 748-752

  Litt, Dana M ^a   Lewis, Melissa A ^a   Linkenbach, Jeffrey W ^b   Lande, Gary ^b   Neighbors, Clayton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

descriptive norms; gender; seat belt use; social norms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE NORMS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHOOL; SEAT BELT USE; SEATBELT; SOCIAL NORMS; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DESCRIPTIVE NORMS; GENDER; SEAT BELT USE; SOCIAL NORMS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SCHOOLS; SEAT BELTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902687825     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2013.868892     Document Type: Article

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