BACKGROUND AND AIMS Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancies are central to Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Alcohol studies demonstrate the theoretical and clinical utility of applying both SCT constructs. This study examined the relationship between refusal self-efficacy and outcome expectancies in a sample of cannabis users, and tested formal mediational models. DESIGN Patients referre...

Since the introduction of HPV vaccination programs in Canada in 2007, coverage has been below public health goals in many provinces and territories. This analysis investigated the determinants of HPV non-vaccination and vaccine refusal. Data from the Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey (CNICS) 2013 were used to estimate the prevalence of HPV non-vaccination and parental vaccine refu...

Resistance in academia is a pervasive phenomenon. Gender equality was prescribed more than decade ago Spain, but the problem remains unsolved. Contributing to feminist institutionalism, this paper identifies both manifestations of resistance intended interfere implementation gender initiatives Spanish universities and strategic responses enacted by agents counteract those resistances. To end, w...

In this paper, refusal testing ideas are applied to deene a testing semantics for a probabilistic process algebra. A testing equivalence is deened by combining the greater discriminatory power of refusal testing and a simple treatment of the prob-abilistic component of processes. This testing equivalence is characterized by two fully abstract denotational semantics. The rst of them is based on ...