Normative processes and Adolescents' Smoking Behaviour in Norway : A Multilevel Analysis  

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Wiium, Nora ; Torsheim, Torbjorn ; Wold, Bente

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 7 (Apr. 2006), page 1810-1818.
Topik: multilevel; norway; subjective norms; descriptive norms; shared context; desired societal norms; adolescents; smoking behaviour

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Currently, smoking prevalence is still high among adolescents. This is of major concern for public health organizations. Factors that influence adolescent smoking behaviour need to be identified and addressed. Research in this area has identified attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control as some of the contributing factors, but subjective norms have often been the weakest predictor of smoking behaviour. This could be due to inadequate measurement. The current paper suggests that examining different types of norms and their relationship with smoking behaviour could help increase the contribution of norms. the apper set out to identify other normative concepts, such as the subjective estimate of smoking prevalence, and descriptive and desired societal norms that are not captured by subjective norms but the could be related to adolescents' smoking behaviour, either as an individual or as a school class predictor. hence rather than playing dowm the role of norms. the addition of a subejctive estimate of smoking prevalence, and descriptive and desired societal norms could extend the normative concept as well as increase its predictive power. Future intervention could address different types of norms as well as the effect of shared context to help prevent adolescents from smoking.

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