dc.contributor.author | White, Katherine M | |
dc.contributor.author | Starfelt, Louise C | |
dc.contributor.author | Young, Ross McD | |
dc.contributor.author | Hawkes, Anna L | |
dc.contributor.author | Leske, Stuart | |
dc.contributor.author | Hamilton, Kyra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-30T01:30:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-30T01:30:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1359-107X | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/bjhp.12108 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/65025 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 17 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | British Journal of Health Psychology | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Sociology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Sociology not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4410 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 441099 | |
dc.title | Predicting Australian adults' sun-safe behaviour: Examining the role of personal and social norms | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
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) | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Hamilton, Kyra | |