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Individual differences in social comparison: development of a scale of social comparison orientationF X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011 3180, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 76:129-42. 1999..In addition, a laboratory study and several field studies are described that demonstrated the INCOM's ability to predict comparison behavior effectively. Possible uses of the scale in basic and applied settings are discussed...- Perceived discrimination and substance use in African American parents and their children: a panel studyFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 3180, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:517-29. 2004..Each of these relations with discrimination was positive. In contrast, effective parenting was associated with less willingness and intention to use. Theoretical and applied implications of the results are discussed... 
Rural-urban differences in substance use among African-American adolescentsFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 3180, USA
J Rural Health 23:22-8. 2007..Specifically, negative affect and perceived availability were examined as mediators of the relation between community size and alcohol, tobacco, and drug use...- Early experience with racial discrimination and conduct disorder as predictors of subsequent drug use: a critical period hypothesisFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, W112 lago, Ames, IA 50011 3180, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 88:S27-37. 2007..The relations existed controlling for parents' reports of their use, discrimination experiences, and their socioeconomic status (SES). The impact of these early experiences on African American families is discussed... - Comparison-level preferences after performance: is downward comparison theory still useful?Frederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:865-80. 2002..Under some circumstances, this "downward shift" included an increased interest in "true" DC--comparing with worse-off others. A reconciliation of these results with those of previous studies is offered... - Using UV photography to reduce use of tanning booths: a test of cognitive mediationFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Health Psychol 24:358-63. 2005.... - Reasoned action and social reaction: willingness and intention as independent predictors of health riskF X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:1164-80. 1998.... - Smoker networks and the "typical smoker": a prospective analysis of smoking cessationF X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011 3180, USA
Health Psychol 15:469-77. 1996..Implications of the results for interventions that use prototypes to discourage smoking are discussed... - Cognitive reactions to smoking relapse: the reciprocal relation between dissonance and self-esteemF X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University 50011 3180, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 72:184-95. 1997..The implications of these results for dissonance theory and the study of smoking relapse and cessation are discussed... - Context and cognitions: environmental risk, social influence, and adolescent substance useFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1048-61. 2004..Also, context moderated the relation between willingness and use (the relation was stronger in high-risk neighborhoods) but it did not moderate the intentions to use relation... - A longitudinal study of the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: what you do shapes what you think, and vice versaM Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011 3180, USA
Health Psychol 15:344-54. 1996.... - The impact of parenting on risk cognitions and risk behavior: a study of mediation and moderation in a panel of African American adolescentsMichael J Cleveland
Iowa State University, USA
Child Dev 76:900-16. 2005..Additional analyses indicated that these protective effects were strongest among families residing in high-risk neighborhoods... - From willingness to intention: experience moderates the shift from reactive to reasoned behaviorElizabeth A Pomery
Iowa State University, IA, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:894-908. 2009..The findings provide evidence of a developmental shift from more reactive to more reasoned processing, as experience with the behavior increases... - Self-esteem and the relation between risk behavior and perceptions of vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy in college womenG E Smith
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, USA
Health Psychol 16:137-46. 1997..Together, these studies provide evidence that people with high self-esteem use self-serving cognitive strategies to maintain their risk perceptions... - Images of smokers and willingness to smoke among African American pre-adolescents: an application of the prototype/willingness model of adolescent health risk behavior to smoking initiationMeg Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, W112 Lagomarcino Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011 3180, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 30:305-18. 2005..This study used the prototype/willingness model of adolescent health risk behavior to examine factors related to onset of smoking... - A theory-based dual-focus alcohol intervention for preadolescents: the Strong African American Families ProgramMeg Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011 3180, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 20:185-95. 2006.... - Families and risk: prospective analyses of familial and social influences on adolescent substance useElizabeth A Pomery
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011, USA
J Fam Psychol 19:560-70. 2005..This interaction was stronger for families living in high-risk neighborhoods. Finally, siblings' willingness buffered the impact of peer use on targets' later use: Low sibling BW was associated with less evidence of peer influence... 
Racial disparities in smoking knowledge among current smokers: data from the health information national trends surveysRachel Ann Reimer
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Psychol Health 25:943-59. 2010..Results highlight an important racial disparity in public health knowledge among current smokers...- Smoking cessation: social comparison level predicts success for adult smokersMeg Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 3180, USA
Health Psychol 24:623-9. 2005..Implications of these findings for cessation groups and social comparison theory are discussed... - Inhibitory effects of drinker and nondrinker prototypes on adolescent alcohol consumptionMeg Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011 3180, USA
Health Psychol 21:601-9. 2002..In contrast, nondrinker images do appear to represent goal states for adolescents who abstain from drinking. Implications for intervention are discussed... - Relation between perceived vulnerability to HIV and precautionary sexual behaviorM Gerrard
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames 50011 3180, USA
Psychol Bull 119:390-409. 1996..In addition, it examines the conceptual and methodological strengths and weaknesses of the empirical literature on these questions and provides recommendations for future research... - Effects of appearance-based interventions on sun protection intentions and self-reported behaviorsHeike I M Mahler
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
Health Psychol 22:199-209. 2003.... - Reason and reaction: the utility of a dual-focus, dual-processing perspective on promotion and prevention of adolescent health risk behaviourFrederick X Gibbons
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Br J Health Psychol 14:231-48. 2009..Specifically, it is suggested that adolescent health behaviour involves both analytic and heuristic processing. Both types of processing are incorporated in the prototype-willingness (prototype) model, which is described in some detail... - Social norms information enhances the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection interventionHeike I M Mahler
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0109, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:321-9. 2008..Further, the addition of both injunctive and descriptive norms information increased self-reported sun protection behaviors during the subsequent month... - Sun protection intervention for highway workers: long-term efficacy of UV photography and skin cancer information on men's protective cognitions and behaviorMichelle L Stock
Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Ann Behav Med 38:225-36. 2009..The risk for skin cancer is increased among older males and outdoor workers who have high levels of ultraviolet (UV) exposure... - Using images to increase exercise behavior: prototypes versus possible selvesJudith A Ouellette
Department of Psychology, State University of New York College Cortland, NY 13045, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:610-20. 2005..Overall, results revealed that health images have an important impact on health behavior. Implications for behavior change are discussed... - The strong African American families program: prevention of youths' high-risk behavior and a test of a model of changeGene H Brody
Department of Child and Family Development, Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 4527, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:1-11. 2006..Changes in regulated, communicative parenting mediated the intervention's impact on youths' recognition of changes in parenting, which in turn was linked to changes in youths' high-risk behavior... - Exposure to smoking depictions in movies: its association with established adolescent smokingJames D Sargent
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:849-56. 2007..To assess the association between exposure to movie smoking and established adolescent smoking... - The Strong African American Families program: longitudinal pathways to sexual risk reductionVelma McBride Murry
Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
J Adolesc Health 41:333-42. 2007..To identify the mechanisms by which intervention-induced increases in adaptive parenting were associated with a reduction in sexual risk behavior among rural African American adolescents across a 29-month period... - Movie exposure to smoking cues and adolescent smoking onset: a test for mediation through peer affiliationsThomas A Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Health Psychol 26:769-76. 2007..To determine whether the effect of movie exposure to smoking on adolescent smoking onset is mediated through increased affiliation with peers who smoke... - Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: a test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptionsThomas Ashby Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 17:312-23. 2003..Effects were also found for gender, parental education, and temperament characteristics. Implications for self-control theory and prevention research are discussed... - The effect of early cognitions on cigarette and alcohol use during adolescenceJudy A Andrews
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 94703 1983, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 22:96-106. 2008..These findings emphasize the need for prevention programs targeted at changing children's social images of substance users and encouraging more accurate perceptions of peers' use... - Parenting behaviors and the occurrence and co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and conduct problems among african american childrenIrene J Kim
University of California, Department of Human and Community Development, Davis, CA, USA
J Fam Psychol 17:571-83. 2003.... - Movie smoking exposure and smoking onset: a longitudinal study of mediation processes in a representative sample of U.S. adolescentsThomas A Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 22:269-77. 2008..Tests for gender differences indicated that girls showed larger effects of movie exposure for some variables. Implications for policy and prevention research are discussed... - Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African American childrenGene H Brody
Department of Child and Family Development, Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens 30602 4527, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:211-22. 2003..Future research and prevention programs should focus on the specific neighborhood processes associated with increased vulnerability for behavior problems... - The relevance of social comparison processes for prevention and health careBram P Buunk
Patient Educ Couns 47:1-3. 2002 - The Strong African American Families Program: translating research into prevention programmingGene H Brody
Department of Child and Family Development and Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602 4527, USA
Child Dev 75:900-17. 2004..Intervention-induced changes in parenting mediated the effect of intervention group influences on changes in protective factors over a 7-month period... - In search of the big fish: investigating the coexistence of the big-fish-little-pond effect with the positive effects of upward comparisonsMarjorie Seaton
SELF Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia
Br J Soc Psychol 47:73-103. 2008..In support of the BFLPE, all studies found the negative effects of school- or class-average ability on self-evaluation, demonstrating that these assimilation and contrast effects can coexist... - Self-control, symptomatology, and substance use precursors: test of a theoretical model in a community sample of 9-year-old childrenThomas A Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 21:205-15. 2007..Multiple-group analyses indicated gender differences in paths from symptomatology to predisposing factors. Implications for understanding vulnerability to substance use are discussed... - The Strong African American Families Program: a cluster-randomized prevention trial of long-term effects and a mediational modelGene H Brody
Department of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 4527, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:356-66. 2006..Intervention-induced changes in youth protective factors mediated the effect of group assignment on long-term changes in use... - A culture-based study of personal and social influences of adolescent smokingBettina F Piko
University of Szeged, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioural Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Eur J Public Health 15:393-8. 2005.... - Perceived discrimination and the adjustment of African American youths: a five-year longitudinal analysis with contextual moderation effectsGene H Brody
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 4527, USA
Child Dev 77:1170-89. 2006..The findings thus identify contextual variables that moderate the contribution of perceived discrimination to African American youths' adjustment... - Pubertal maturation and early substance use risks among African American childrenXiaojia Ge
Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 20:404-14. 2006..Second, these changes were significantly more likely to occur among early maturing girls. Third, early physical maturation interacted with peer substance use to affect these changes... - Ethnic pride and self-control related to protective and risk factors: test of the theoretical model for the strong African American families programThomas A Wills
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Health Psychol 26:50-9. 2007..To test a theoretical model of how ethnic pride and self-control are related to risk and protective factors... - Prototype perception and smoking: are negative or positive social images more important in adolescence?Bettina F Piko
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Sciences, University of Szeged, 6722 Szeged, Szentharomsag Street 5, Hungary
Addict Behav 32:1728-32. 2007..For boys, positive individual competence prototype also seems to be important. Health promotion programs should focus on fostering negative social images in prevention... - Supportive parenting moderates the effect of discrimination upon anger, hostile view of relationships, and violence among African American boysRonald L Simons
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Health Soc Behav 47:373-89. 2006..Second, supportive parenting lowers the risk that anger or a hostile view of relationships, when they develop, will result in violence... - Effects of UV photographs, photoaging information, and use of sunless tanning lotion on sun protection behaviorsHeike I M Mahler
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Arch Dermatol 141:373-80. 2005.... - African American children's depressive symptoms: the prospective effects of neighborhood disorder, stressful life events, and parentingMisaki N Natsuaki
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Community Psychol 39:163-76. 2007..The importance of examining correlates of depressive symptoms from a contextual framework, focusing on individuals, families, and neighborhood contexts, is emphasized... - Am I the typical student? Perceived similarity to student prototypes predicts successDavid J Lane
Western Illinois University, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1380-91. 2007..These findings highlight the importance of perceived dissimilarity in prototype perception, particularly among those high in negative affect... - It's about timing and change: pubertal transition effects on symptoms of major depression among African American youthsXiaojia Ge
Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Dev Psychol 39:430-9. 2003..Results support the early timing hypothesis for girls and the stressful change hypothesis for boys. Time at assessment is critical when examining boys' pubertal transition... - Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccinationNoel T Brewer
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Health Psychol 26:136-45. 2007..Risk perceptions are central to many health behavior theories. However, the relationship between risk perceptions and behavior, muddied by instances of inappropriate assessment and analysis, often looks weak...