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dc.contributor.authorWhite, Katherine M
dc.contributor.authorStarfelt, Louise C
dc.contributor.authorYoung, Ross McD
dc.contributor.authorHawkes, Anna L
dc.contributor.authorLeske, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Kyra
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-30T01:30:27Z
dc.date.available2018-07-30T01:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1359-107X
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/bjhp.12108
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/65025
dc.description.abstractObjectives To address the scarcity of comprehensive, theory-based research in the Australian context, this study, using a theory of planned behaviour (TPB) framework, investigated the role of personal and social norms to identify the key predictors of adult Australians' sun-safe intentions and behaviour. Design The study used a prospective design with two waves of data collection, 1 week apart. Methods Participants were 816 adults (48.2% men) aged between 18 and 88 years recruited from urban, regional, and rural areas of Australia. At baseline, participants completed a questionnaire assessing the standard TPB predictors (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control [PBC]), past behaviour, behavioural intention, and additional measures of group norm for the referent groups of friends and family, image norm, personal norm, personal choice/responsibility, and Australian identity. Seventy-one per cent of the participants (n = 577) reported on their sun-safe behaviour in the subsequent week. Results Via path modelling, past behaviour, attitude, group norm (friends), personal norm, and personal choice/responsibility emerged as independent predictors of intentions which, in turn, predicted sun-safe behaviour prospectively. Past behaviour, but not PBC, had direct effects on sun-safe behaviour. The model explained 61.6% and 43.9% of the variance in intention and behaviour, respectively. Conclusions This study provides support for the use of a comprehensive theoretical decision-making model to explain Australian adults' sun-safe intentions and behaviours and identifies viable targets for health-promoting messages in this high-risk context.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto17
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBritish Journal of Health Psychology
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode441099
dc.titlePredicting Australian adults' sun-safe behaviour: Examining the role of personal and social norms
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.rights.copyright© 2014 British Psychological Society. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Predicting Australian adults' sun-safe behaviour: Examining the role of personal and social norms, British Journal of Health Psychology, pp. 1-17, 2014, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/bjhp.12108. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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