title: The relative influence of attitudes and subjective norms from childhood to adolescence: between-participant and within-participant analyses.
abstract: Children and adolescents (ages 8-16) were asked to indicate their behavioral intentions, attitudes, and subjective norms for 34 behaviors. Between-participant and within-participant analyses demonstrated that attitudes and subjective norms were good predictors of behavioral intentions both singly and in combination. In addition, attitudes generally were better predictors than were subjective norms both across behaviors and across participants. Most importantly, however, there were no differences in the relative importance of attitudes and subjective norms in predicting behavioral intentions across age groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, MSC 3452, New Mexico State University, PO Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, USA. trafimow@crl.nmsu.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trafimow
authors.forename: Jennie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grace
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Paschal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sheeran
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035863:Moral Development; D012919:Social Behavior