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| Michael T StephensonSummaryAffiliation: Texas A and M University Country: USA Publications
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On the use of structural equation modeling in health communication researchMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, 77843 4234, USA
Health Commun 20:159-67. 2006..Moreover, the authors articulate the possibility for examining communication as an agent, mediator, and an outcome. Finally, they review the application of SEM to recursive models, interactions, and confirmatory factor analysis...- Authoritative parenting and sensation seeking as predictors of adolescent cigarette and marijuana useMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station 77843 4234, USA
J Drug Educ 36:247-70. 2006..Further, authoritative parenting was a stronger influence than sensation seeking on cigarette-related outcomes with just the opposite effect observed for marijuana-related outcomes... - Parent ads in the National Youth Anti-Drug Media CampaignMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843 4234, USA
J Health Commun 10:701-10. 2005..Marijuana and inhalant ads largely were risk based, while general drug messages focused on monitoring, parent-child discussions or positive involvement practices... - The reliability and validity of the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS-8) with young adult Latino workers: implications for tobacco and alcohol disparity researchMichael T Stephenson
Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Addiction 102:79-91. 2007.... - Authoritative parenting and drug-prevention practices: implications for antidrug ads for parentsMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Health Commun 17:301-21. 2005..The utility of these findings in helping design and target antidrug messages for parents more effectively is discussed... - Using persuasive messages to encourage voluntary hearing protection among coal minersMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, 4234 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
J Safety Res 36:9-17. 2005..This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection behaviors... - Mass media strategies targeting high sensation seekers: what works and whyMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Am J Health Behav 27:S233-8. 2003..To examine strategies for using the mass media effectively in drug prevention campaigns targeting high sensation seekers... - Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveysMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, 4234 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 72:279-86. 2003..Both indices performed in ways remarkably similar to the established measures of sensation seeking and should prove useful for future research involving risky health behaviors... - Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Marijuana Initiative Campaign on high-sensation-seeking adolescentsPhilip Palmgreen
Department of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0042, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1644-9. 2007..We evaluated the effects of the Marijuana Initiative portion of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign on high-sensation-seeking and low-sensation-seeking adolescents... - An examination of antecedents to coal miners' hearing protection behaviors: a test of the theory of planned behaviorBrian L Quick
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Safety Res 39:329-38. 2008..The present investigation examines three antecedents believed to be associated with miner's use of hearing protection... - Perceived message sensation value (PMSV) and the dimensions and validation of a PMSV scalePhilip Palmgreen
Department of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0042, USA
Health Commun 14:403-28. 2002..Study 1 also examined cognitive, narrative, and sensory PSA processing, which were found to be positively associated with total PMSV and the Arousal and Dramatic Impact dimensions of PSMV for both HSS and LSS... - In their own words: the reasons why people will (not) sign an organ donor cardSusan E Morgan
Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Health Commun 23:23-33. 2008..These findings both support and contradict past studies based on quantitative survey data. Implications for the construction of more effective future organ donor campaigns are discussed... - The role of religiosity, religious norms, subjective norms, and bodily integrity in signing an organ donor cardMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4234, USA
Health Commun 23:436-47. 2008..Finally, the results reveal a strong direct and indirect effect of bodily integrity on intent to donate... - Family discussions about organ donation: how the media influences opinions about donation decisionsSusan E Morgan
Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Clin Transplant 19:674-82. 2005..Therefore, such myths must be countered effectively if greater consent for organ donation is to be attained... - Authoritative parenting and issue involvement as indicators of ad recall: an empirical investigation of anti-drug ads for parentsBrian L Quick
School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Health Commun 22:25-35. 2007.... - Predictors of exposure from an antimarijuana media campaign: outcome research assessing sensation seeking targetingMichael T Stephenson
Department of Communication University of Missouri Columbia, 65211 2310, USA
Health Commun 14:23-43. 2002..Implications for designing future antimarijuana messages based on these findings are discussed... - Facts versus 'Feelings': how rational is the decision to become an organ donor?Susan E Morgan
Department of Communication corrected Purdue University, Beering Hall Room 2114 corrected West Lafayette, IN 47907 2098 USA
J Health Psychol 13:644-58. 2008....