This article seeks to further our understanding of self-protective behavior by examining the
effects of a particularly powerful stimulus to action: personal experience. It reviews the …

This report investigates the effectiveness of road safety public information campaigns
conducted through the mass media. The differing roles of publicity in the fields of brand …

Las Campañas de alfabetización, la planificación familiar, y los programas para combatir el
embarazo en la adolescencia, contra el abuso de la droga, y de prevención del sida …

Research in the field of risk communication, the study of communication about uncertain
physical hazards, has chiefly focused on enhancing understanding of risk concepts or …

For both preventing or managing disease, the individual person's behavior and life-style is
now recognized as a critical factor. To study this behavior-health link, there is increasing …

The use of safety belts in automobiles greatly reduces the probability of death and injury in
crashes.'14 As a result of legislation in several states, lap belts have been standard …

This study clarifies the associations between accident history, perception of the riskiness of
road travel and traffic safety behaviours by taking into account the number and severity of …

It is shown that Fishbein's 'theory of reasoned action'can be used to explain people's
intentions to wear seat belts. As Bentler and Speckart (1979) have proposed, a self‐report …

THE DETERMINANTS OF THOSE BEHAVIORS that people can control to lessen the
probability of chronic disease or a major accident have receivedincreasing emphasis in …

This paper begins with a review of the literature on compliance. The medical literature
suggests that patients with chronic illnesses tend to comply poorly, especially if the disease …