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Predicting Health Behaviors From Attitudes and Subjective Norms: Between‐Subjects and Within‐Subjects Analyses
Author(s) -
Finlay Krystina A.,
Trafimow David,
Jones Donna
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01638.x
Subject(s) - normative , psychology , social psychology , control (management) , normative social influence , theory of reasoned action , epistemology , philosophy , management , economics
Much previous research (Trafimow & Fishbein, 1994a, 1994b) indicates that some behaviors are mostly under attitudinal control and some are mostly under normative control. Further, other research (Trafimow & Finlay, 1996) demonstrates that people, as well as behaviors, can be generally under attitudinal or normative control. The present research applies these ideas to the domain of health behaviors. Analyses conducted between‐subjects for each behavior, and within‐subjects across all of the behaviors, demonstrate that both behaviors and people can be under attitudinal or normative control when responding to items pertaining to health.