Five different health behaviors (cigarette use, alcohol use, binge eating, illicit drug use, and drunk driving) were studied prospectively in 5 different groups of subjects. Associations between attitudes toward these behaviors and the behaviors themselves were investigated over at least 2 waves of measurement. Findings revealed that attitudes predicted behavior nonspuriously in 2 instances: al...

background and purpose: there is much evidence that the prevalence of academic misbehaviors is increasing in universities. this study examined the motivation and attitudes of medical students of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences on cheating and its frequency. methods: the study is a survey of medical students’ of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences attitudes on cheating ...

Two studies involving 26 behaviors were perforned to test four hypotheses. Between-participants and within-participants analyses of attitudes, subjective norms, behavioral intentions and actual behaviors suggested the following conclusions. First, consistent with Trafimow and Finlay (1996), the prediction of intentions from attitudes and subjective norms is better when within-participants analy...

Psychopathic individuals are characterized by a collection of antisocial behaviors, anomalous affective experiences, and callous, self-serving attitudes. Their behaviors include criminal activity ranging from drug dealing to assault. Their interpersonal interactions can be characterized by both superficial charm and a striking callousness toward others, often including a lack of remorse for the...

Objectives: To determine (i) the extent to which recommended lifestyle healthy behaviors are adopted and the existence of positive attitudes to health; (ii) the relative influence of socio-demographic variables on multiple healthy lifestyle behaviors and positive attitudes to health; (iii) the association between healthy lifestyle behaviors and positive attitudes to health. Design: two distinct...

BACKGROUND The Alabama Child Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a multi-source and multi-method instrument created to assess the most relevant parenting practices from a bidirectional perspective. Despite its advantages, the APQ has not been validated with a Spanish population. The objective of this study was to analyse the psychometric properties and factor structure of the APQ, child self-repor...

This research examines the impact of asking intention questions about "vice behaviors," or behaviors about which respondents simultaneously hold both negative explicit and positive implicit attitudes. Asking questions about the likelihood of engaging in behaviors for which respondents maintain conflicting attitude structures appears to give respondents a "license to sin," resulting in increased...