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Direct linkDestiny Peterson – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
This paper provides an extensive literature review of current approaches to sexual consent and demonstrates their insufficiency for teaching higher education students about healthy sex. Their overemphasis on the giving of consent to the detriment of attention to the process of gaining consent, as well as their inappropriate utilisation of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sex Education, Sexuality, Consent
Seitz, Christopher M.; Wyrick, David L.; Caldwell, Rebecca; Fearnow-Kenney, Melodie; Orsini, Mushin Michael – Journal of School Health, 2011
One method in which health professionals can influence adolescent substance use is by correcting social norms. According to the social norms theory, individuals often erroneously believe that the majority of people engage in unhealthy behaviors, a misperception that may motivate individuals to increase their own unhealthy behaviors. The social…
Descriptors: Prevention, Health Personnel, Adolescents, Teaching Methods
Levine, Elyse; Abbatangelo-Gray, Jodie; Mobley, Amy R.; McLaughlin, Grant R.; Herzog, Jill – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2012
MyPlate, the icon and multimodal communication plan developed for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), provides an opportunity to consider new approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of communication initiatives. A review of indicators used in assessments for previous DGA communication initiatives finds gaps in accounting for…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Dietetics
Download full textPonton, Michael K.; Dean, Jason S. – 2001
Social norming campaigns that work to show the disparity between students' perceptions of campus drinking and actual levels of drinking have proven to be successful in reducing alcohol use by college students. The premise of social norming is that human behavior is greatly influenced by perceptions of the population from which acceptance is…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Students, Drinking, Health Behavior
Peer reviewedKeeling, Richard P. – Journal of American College Health, 2000
Social norms strategies in examining college health behavior have become popular and well-accepted. There is substantial variation in the understanding, application, and nature of social norms approaches. This paper introduces four articles on social norms research in college health that address: binge drinking prevalence; substance abuse…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Standards, College Students, Drinking
Demetriou, Cynthia – NACADA Journal, 2005
Since the mid-1990s, social norms theory has become prevalent in student development literature and research. Subsequently, social norms interventions to change student behavior have spread across campuses nationwide through marketing campaigns. Theorists and practitioners have applied the social norms approach to primarily health-related student…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Prevention, Student Development, Behavior Standards
