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The social desirability of preventive health behavior.
  • Published Date:
    1984 Jul-Aug
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 99(4):384-388
  • Language:
    English
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    Public Health Rep
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    The relationship between measures of social desirability and various preventive health behaviors was examined directly for 235 females and 171 males from the British public and 182 females and 49 males from the University of Toronto, Canada. Both simple and partial correlations controlling for age showed that social desirability scores were related to total preventive behavior scores formed on the basis of the responses to 42 items, as well as many of the individual preventive behavior items. To ensure that this relationship was not unique to the present study, the response frequencies for 15 behavior items in this study were compared with those reported by another investigator who also used these 15 behavior items, and were found to be quite similar. Simple and partial correlations controlling for age showed that social desirability scores were significantly correlated with more of these 15 behaviors than one would expect by chance. The implications of the association of social desirability and preventive health behavior for the measurement of preventive health behavior, future research, and health education are discussed.

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    6431487
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMCnull
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
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    Public Health Reports
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Published Date:
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      Source:
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      File Type:
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      Published Date:
      Jul-Aug 1984
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4)
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      Filetype[PDF - 414.54 KB]
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      Published Date:
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      Source:
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      Published Date:
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      Source:
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      Description:
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      Source:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
      The controversy over Laetrile is nearly at an end, the worthlessness of the drug having been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. But the Laetrile experience raised important questions of public policy, some of which remain unresolved and all of whi...
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      Personal Author:
      Sobel, S
      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
      The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has relied to a great degree on epidemiologic studies in the regulation of oral contraceptives (OC). These epidemiologic studies range from individual case reports of adverse reactions to case-control studi...
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4):415-424
      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4):424-429
      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4):374-384
      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4):365-369
      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 99(4):404-409
      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published Date:
      1984 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Published Date:
      Jul-Aug 1984
      Source:
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      File Type:
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