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Direct linkThorlton, Janet; Park, Chang; Hughes, Tonda – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
About 35% of healthy weight adolescent females describe themselves as overweight, and 66% report planning to lose weight. Body weight dissatisfaction is associated with unhealthy weight loss practices including diet pill/powder/liquid (PPL) use. Few studies have examined diet PPL use in healthy weight adolescent females; therefore, Youth Risk…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Body Weight, Females, Adolescents
Ott, Carol H.; Doyle, Lynn H. – High School Journal, 2005
According to social norms theory, when high school students overestimate the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) by their peers, they tend to use more themselves. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these over estimations (misperceptions) could be corrected through a similar age peer-to-peer interactive social norms…
Descriptors: Social Theories, High School Students, Adolescents, Peer Relationship
