The relative influence of attitudes and subjective norms from childhood to adolescence: between-participant and within-participant analyses.
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.
Trafimow
David
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Department of Psychology, MSC 3452, New Mexico State University, PO Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, USA. trafimow@crl.nmsu.edu
Brown
Jennie
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Grace
Kristen
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Thompson
Laura A
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Sheeran
Paschal
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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