Is healthy behavior contagious: associations of social norms with physical activity and healthy eating
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Is healthy behavior contagious: associations of social norms with physical activity and healthy eating
BACKGROUND Social norms are theoretically hypothesized to influence health-related behaviors such as physical activity and eating behaviors. However, empirical evidence relating social norms to these behaviors, independently of other more commonly-investigated social constructs such as social support, is scarce and findings equivocal, perhaps due to limitations in the ways in which social norms...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1479-5868
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-7-86