Examining personal control beliefs as a mediating variable in the health-damaging behavior of substance use: an alternative approach.
Substance use continues to be a concern for researchers and health professionals alike. One of the most extensive areas of research on health-related behaviors such as smoking and drug use has been on personal control beliefs. Since many health actions (both facilitative and deleterious) depend on voluntary behaviors, and many health-related prevention and intervention programs are predicted on an assumption of controllability, this is an important area to consider. This article is a review of some of the literature and presents an alternative approach that entails using area-specific and domain-specific methods to examine the role that control beliefs play in the health-damaging behavior of substance use.
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Program in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*