title: Indoor tanning and problem behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors examined factors predicting college students' use of tanning beds.
  
  
  METHODS
  Undergraduate students (N = 745) at a large Northeastern university participated in the study by answering a survey measuring tanning behavior and other psychosocial variables, including sensation seeking, self-esteem, tanning image beliefs, and friends' tanning bed use.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All 3 systems from problem behavior theory predicted past tanning bed use and intention to use tanning beds. The authors observed a positive association between sensation seeking and intention to use tanning beds. Tanning image beliefs were positively associated with both past tanning behavior and intention to use tanning beds.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Interventions focusing on friend and acquaintance social network influences may be more effective than health-risk campaigns in reducing tanning bed use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. zbagdasa@rci.rutgers.edu
authors.forename: Zhanna
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bagdasarov
authors.forename: Smita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Shelly
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001505:Beauty Culture; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D014495:Universities