[PDF][PDF] How individuals, environments, and health behaviors interact

AL McAlister, CL Perry… - Health …, 2008 - thehubedu-production.s3 …
The authors are grateful to Professor Albert Bandura for critical and detailed comments on
the first draft, Katherine Sterba for insightful editorial help, Brenda Spence for indispensable …

Community education for cardiovascular health

JW Farquhar, PD Wood, H Breitrose, WL Haskell… - The Lancet, 1977 - Elsevier
To determine whether community health education can reduce the risk of cardiovascular
disease, a field experiment was conducted in three northern California towns. In two of these …

Mechanisms of moral disengagement in support of military force: The impact of Sept. 11

AL McAlister, A Bandura, SV Owen - Journal of Social and Clinical …, 2006 - Guilford Press
The present study examined the relation between disengagement of moral self-sanctions
and support of military force. The modes of moral disengagement included moral …

Extended contact through peer modelling to promote tolerance in Finland

K Liebkind, AL McAlister - European Journal of Social …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A field experiment studied the effect of extended contact through peer modelling for
tolerance promotion among 1480 Finnish students (ages 13–15) in three pairs of middle …

Moral disengagement: Measurement and modification

AL McAlister - Journal of Peace Research, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
To study how attitudes and social psychological processes influence decisions about war
and peace, a 15-question scale was developed to measure moral disengagement in support …

Adolescent smoking: Onset and prevention

AL McAlister, C Perry, N Maccoby - Pediatrics, 1979 - publications.aap.org
Despite the systemic and conceptual barriers to effective preventive actions, some progress
is beginning to be made in preventing adoption of self-destructive behaviors during …

Evaluating the impact of a theory-based sexuality and contraceptive education program

M Eisen, GL Zellman, AL McAlister - Family planning perspectives, 1990 - JSTOR
A controlled field study involving 1,444 adolescent males and females 13-19 years of age
was performed to compare a sexuality education program based on the health belief model …

Population behavior change: a theory-based approach

AL McAlister - Journal of Public Health Policy, 1991 - Springer
Behavioral science provides useful ideas about how programs of mass communication and
community participation can produce synergistic influences on the lifestyles and policy …

A health belief model-social learning theory approach to adolescents' fertility control: Findings from a controlled field trial

M Eisen, GL Zellman… - Health education …, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
We evaluated an 8-to 12-hour Health Belief Model-Social Learning Theory (HBM-SLT)-
based sex education program against several community-and school-based interventions in …

A health belief model approach to adolescents' fertility control: Some pilot program findings

M Eisen, GL Zellman… - Health education …, 1985 - journals.sagepub.com
We report initial findings from a community-based intervention intended to strengthen un
married teenagers' fertility control behaviors (ie, abstinence or consistent contraceptive …