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Direct linkWagner, Dana E.; Fernandez, Priscilla; Jordan, Jeffrey W.; Saggese, Daniel J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Peer crowds are macro-level, reputation-based subcultures with shared preferences, values, and behavior. The Country peer crowd has been the focus of tobacco industry research and marketing but has yet to be the primary focus of public health research. The current study explores the utility of "Down and Dirty," a "Social…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Adolescents, Social Influences, Smoking
Lozano, Paula; Arillo-Santillán, Edna; Barrientos-Gutíerrez, Inti; Reynales Shigematsu, Luz Myriam; Thrasher, James F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: This study examined how risk perceptions and social norms around e-cigarettes are associated with susceptibility (i.e., openness to using the product in the next 12 months) of e-cigarettes and smoking among adolescents. Methods: We analyzed data from a 2016 representative survey of 8,718 middle school students in Mexico. The study…
Descriptors: Smoking, Social Attitudes, Social Influences, Adolescents
Switzer, Sarah; Chan Carusone, Soo; McClelland, Alex; Apong, Kamilah; Herelle, Neil; Guta, Adrian; Strike, Carol; Flicker, Sarah – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Community engagement is considered a cornerstone of health promotion practice. Yet engagement is a fuzzy term signifying a range of practices. Health scholarship has focused primarily on individual effects of engagement. To understand the complexities of engagement, organizations must also consider relational, structural, and/or organizational…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Involvement, Health Promotion, Stakeholders
Satija, Ambika; Khandpur, Neha; Satija, Shivani; Mathur Gaiha, Shivani; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Reddy, K. Srinath; Arora, Monika; Venkat Narayan, K. M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Inadequate physical activity (PA) levels are reported in Indian youth, with lowest levels among adolescents, particularly girls. We aimed to identify barriers to and enablers of PA among school children in New Delhi and examine potential differences by gender and school type (government vs. private). A total of 174 students (private school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Adolescents, Barriers
Jordan, Jeffrey W.; Stalgaitis, Carolyn A.; Charles, John; Madden, Patrick A.; Radhakrishnan, Anjana G.; Saggese, Daniel – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Purpose: Peer crowds are macro-level subcultures that share similarities across geographic areas. Over the past decade, dozens of studies have explored the association between adolescent peer crowds and risk behaviors, and how they can inform public health efforts. However, despite the interest, researchers have not yet reported on crowd size and…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Peer Groups, Health Behavior, At Risk Persons
Ilakkuvan, Vinu; Reubenstein, Rebecca; Xiao, Haijun; Rath, Jessica – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
The purpose of this study is to understand differences in demographics, frequency of tobacco use, and tobacco-related attitudes between youth/young adults who carry tobacco products and those who do not. Carrying tobacco is hypothesized to affect individuals' smoker identity and thereby their tobacco-related attitudes. Carriers are an influential…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Adolescents, Smoking, Classification
Hunter, Jaimie C.; Vines, Anissa I.; Carlisle, Veronica – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Background: In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a hotly debated recommendation against prostate-specific antigen testing for all men. The present research examines African Americans' beliefs about their susceptibility to prostate cancer (PCa) and the effectiveness of prostate-specific antigen testing in the context of the…
Descriptors: African American Attitudes, Cancer, Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
Prado, Guillermo; Huang, Shi; Maldonado-Molina, Mildred; Bandiera, Frank; Schwartz, Seth J.; de la Vega, Pura; Brown, C. Hendricks; Pantin, Hilda – Health Education & Behavior, 2010
Ecodevelopmental theory is a theoretical framework used to explain the interplay among risk and protective processes associated with HIV risk behaviors among adolescents. Although ecodevelopmentally based interventions have been found to be efficacious in preventing HIV risk behaviors among Hispanic youth, this theory has not yet been directly…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Parents, Sexuality
McDermott, Liane J.; Lowe, John B.; Stanton, Warren R.; Clavarino, Alexandra M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
In this study, the portrayal of tanned skin and sun protection in magazines, television programs, and movies popular with Australian adolescents were analyzed. Images of models in magazines (n = 1,791), regular/supporting characters in television programs (n = 867), and regular/supporting characters in cinema movies (n = 2,836) for the 12-month…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Influence, Health Behavior, Advertising
