Marshall H Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 156755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marshall H Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marshall H |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0168-1499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Lived Experience and Messenger Credibility: A Replication Study on P/CVE Messenger Credibility in Germany
This study examines messenger credibility in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), comparing lived experience (i.e. former extremist and victims of terrorism) messengers to professional experts using experimental data from a representative German sample (N = 2004). Findings suggest institutional messengers may be more credible due to professional expertise, challenging assumptions about lived experience credibility. Replicating a U…
Don’t Kill the Messenger: Perceived Credibility of Far-Right Former Extremists and Police Officers in P/CVE Communication
Former extremists and terrorists ('formers') are seen as key messengers and mentors in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Their assumed effectiveness rests on their unique, intrinsic source credibility due to their biography. Having 'walked the walk' and 'talked the talk', it is widely assumed that such individuals are ideal to present counter messages. Formers are typically viewed as more credible and effective messengers in co…
Successful for whom: An Examination of the General Deterrent Impact of the Targeted Killing of Terrorist Leaders on Global Terrorist Fatalities
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and others who are argued to be prominent terrorist threats, a growing body of evidence suggests that targeted killings do not achieve their desired general deterrent impacts. Yet, this strategy still enjoys great political support and targeted killings continue to be to…
A Comparative Study of Initial Involvement in Gangs and Political Extremism
There is a paucity of research comparing gang members and domestic extremists and extant studies find few explicit linkages. Despite this, there remains a great deal of interest in possible similarities between these criminal groups. Driving this interest is the possibility of adapting policies and practices aimed at preventing entry into criminal groups. A critical first step to determining compatibility is to examine the circumstances of the in…
Cyclicality in non-state violence: Theory and evidence
What explains recurrent fluctuations in violence within militant groups? Temporal swings in the number of attacks perpetrated are common, but lack a general explanation. I provide evidence of cycles in attacks, and provide a theory of why organizational levels of violence vary serially. First, due to the contradictions of non-state violence, there exist, simultaneously, upward and downward pressures on its use. By “contradictions,” I mean that vi…
Deciding to support violence: An empirical examination of systematic decision-making, activism, and support for political violence
This study examines how attitudes of activism and systematic decision-making are related to support for political violence. Using unique data from a randomly selected sample of undergraduate and graduate students ( N = 503), this study explores how activism, systematic decision-making, and political affiliation coincides with existing support for political violence. Among respondents, stronger support for activism and less systematic decision-mak…
When Extremists Become Violent: Examining the Association Between Social Control, Social Learning, and Engagement in Violent Extremism
This research examines the relationship between social control and social learning variables on involvement in violent vs. non-violent extremism. Using data from the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database (n = 1,757), this study presents a series of logistic regressions. Among radicalized individuals, weaker social control and stronger social learning of violence were associated violent over non-violent behavi…
Why Violence Abates: Imposed and Elective Declines in Terrorist Attacks
Previous scholarship on variations in violence within a given terrorist organization has primarily focused on factors that lead to the inception or destruction of that organization. However, violence varies substantially even during the “prime” of an organization's life. This article aims to understand why violence varies in the short term within many organizations, and places a special focus on declines in violence. Specifically, I argue that te…
Der Sanktionsdurchgriff im Unternehmensverbund. Hrsg. von Jörg Eisele, Jens Koch und Hans Theile. Tübingen 2014
Der Sanktionsdurchgriff im Unternehmensverbund. Hrsg. von Jörg Eisele, Jens Koch und Hans Theile. Tübingen 2014
Explaining Lone Wolf Target Selection in the United States
The rise in lone wolf terrorist attacks worldwide in recent decades makes understanding the types of targets lone wolves choose a crucial locus of research, yet this topic remains understudied. In light of this lacuna, this article analyzes 84 lone wolf terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States between 1940 and 2012, identifies patterns in lone wolf target selection, and proposes and tests causal explanations for these patterns. I find…
The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology. Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books. Pápa, Hungary, 9-11 June 2005
Das Ende der Tage und die Gegenwart des Heils: Begegnungen mit dem Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt. Festschrift für Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn zum 65. Geburtstag
This volume combines articles of established scholars on Jewish and New Testament studies in honor of the New Testament scholar Prof.Dr. Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn, Munich. The articles deal with various aspects of his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Archeology (Bethsaida), Jewish and New Testament Studies. Some of the contributions focus especially on aspects of eschatology in the time of the first century.
The Health Belief Model and HIV Risk Behavior Change
A Medical Sociologist Looks at Health Promotion
Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the Medical Sociology Section for the Leo G. Reeder Award; it is an exceptional honor, and gives me the opportunity to thank my colleagues and friends who have motivated, supported, and inspired me over the years. Like many of us, I have spent much of my career trying to help health professionals obtain the public's cooperation in extinguishing risky behaviors and undertaking healthy lifestyles.…
Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research
This article summarizes the literature describing the at-home management of and psychosocial coping with five chronic diseases (heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, and diabetes) by the general population of adults. It also reviews the literature describing self-management of these chronic diseases by older adults. Conclusions drawn subsequent to the review are (a) that there are strong commonalities in the ess…
Social Learning Theory and the Health Belief Model
The Health Belief Model, social learning theory (recently relabelled social cognitive theory), self-efficacy, and locus of control have all been applied with varying success to problems of explaining, predicting, and influencing behavior. Yet, there is con ceptual confusion among researchers and practitioners about the interrelationships of these theories and variables. This article attempts to show how these explanatory fac tors may be related, …
The Role of Self-Efficacy in Achieving Health Behavior Change
The concept of self-efficacy is receiving increasing recognition as a predictor of health behavior change and maintenance. The purpose of this article is to facilitate a clearer understanding of both the concept and its relevance for health education research and practice. Self-efficacy is first defined and distinguished from other related concepts. Next, studies of the self-efficacy concept as it relates to health practices are examined. This re…
Correlates of mothers' use of medications for their children
Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception
This study examines the influence of parents peers and partners on teenage womens contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. Data are based on a survey of 2884 unmarried US women under 20 who were making their 1st visit to a family planning clinic. All family planning clinic sites in 21 of Marylands 23 counties were included in the study. The majority of these young women report ac…
Patient Adherence to Prescribed Therapies
From the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Contraceptive behavior among unmarried young women: A theoretical framework for research
Psychosocial Factors Affecting Adherence to Medical Regimens in a Group of Hemodialysis Patients
The present research was designed to identify psychosocial correlates of adherence among patients receiving hemodialysis at two outpatient clinics. The 116 participants were interviewed concerning their knowledge of treatment, health beliefs, treatment history, social support, personal characteristics, and adherence to the medication, diet and fluid-intake aspects of the regimen. In addition, medical record data were obtained on serum phosphorus …
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion
Constance A. Nathanson, Marshall H. Becker, Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 198-211
Selected Psychosocial Models and Correlates of Individual Health-Related Behaviors
This dataset comprises interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 with health service users, health professionals and health system managers in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. The interviews focused in particular on the primary health care services covering two of the poorest sub-municipal districts, Cidade Tiradentes and Sapopemba. The Unequal Voices project – Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese – aimed to strengthen the evidence base on the po…
The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment
Marshall H. Becker, Lois A. Maiman, John P. Kirscht, Don P. Haefner, Robert H. Drachman, The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 348-366
Sociometric Location and Innovativeness: Reformulation and Extension of the Diffusion Model
1968a class, parental encouragement and educational aspirations. American Journal of Sociology 73:559-572. 1968b Parents' education and children's educational aspirations and achievements. American Sociological Review 33:191-209. Sexton, Patrico Cayo 1961 Education and Income. New York: Viking Press. Slater, Marian K. 1969 My son the doctor: Aspects of mobility among American Jews. American Sociological Review 34 (June) :359-373. Smith, Howard P.…
The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment
Marshall H. Becker, Lois A. Maiman, John P. Kirscht, Don P. Haefner, Robert H. Drachman, The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 348-366
Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research
This article summarizes the literature describing the at-home management of and psychosocial coping with five chronic diseases (heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, and diabetes) by the general population of adults. It also reviews the literature describing self-management of these chronic diseases by older adults. Conclusions drawn subsequent to the review are (a) that there are strong commonalities in the ess…
When Extremists Become Violent: Examining the Association Between Social Control, Social Learning, and Engagement in Violent Extremism
This research examines the relationship between social control and social learning variables on involvement in violent vs. non-violent extremism. Using data from the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) database (n = 1,757), this study presents a series of logistic regressions. Among radicalized individuals, weaker social control and stronger social learning of violence were associated violent over non-violent behavi…
A Medical Sociologist Looks at Health Promotion
Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the Medical Sociology Section for the Leo G. Reeder Award; it is an exceptional honor, and gives me the opportunity to thank my colleagues and friends who have motivated, supported, and inspired me over the years. Like many of us, I have spent much of my career trying to help health professionals obtain the public's cooperation in extinguishing risky behaviors and undertaking healthy lifestyles.…
Explaining Lone Wolf Target Selection in the United States
The rise in lone wolf terrorist attacks worldwide in recent decades makes understanding the types of targets lone wolves choose a crucial locus of research, yet this topic remains understudied. In light of this lacuna, this article analyzes 84 lone wolf terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States between 1940 and 2012, identifies patterns in lone wolf target selection, and proposes and tests causal explanations for these patterns. I find…
Deciding to support violence: An empirical examination of systematic decision-making, activism, and support for political violence
This study examines how attitudes of activism and systematic decision-making are related to support for political violence. Using unique data from a randomly selected sample of undergraduate and graduate students ( N = 503), this study explores how activism, systematic decision-making, and political affiliation coincides with existing support for political violence. Among respondents, stronger support for activism and less systematic decision-mak…
Don’t Kill the Messenger: Perceived Credibility of Far-Right Former Extremists and Police Officers in P/CVE Communication
Former extremists and terrorists ('formers') are seen as key messengers and mentors in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Their assumed effectiveness rests on their unique, intrinsic source credibility due to their biography. Having 'walked the walk' and 'talked the talk', it is widely assumed that such individuals are ideal to present counter messages. Formers are typically viewed as more credible and effective messengers in co…
Correlates of mothers' use of medications for their children
Contraceptive behavior among unmarried young women: A theoretical framework for research
Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception
This study examines the influence of parents peers and partners on teenage womens contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. Data are based on a survey of 2884 unmarried US women under 20 who were making their 1st visit to a family planning clinic. All family planning clinic sites in 21 of Marylands 23 counties were included in the study. The majority of these young women report ac…
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion
Constance A. Nathanson, Marshall H. Becker, Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 198-211
Control Structure and Conflict in Outpatient Clinics
This paper examines the influence of variations in outpatient clinic control structure on physicians' perception of conflict in three teaching and three community hospital pediatric clinics. In previous work, professional control has been equated with autonomy, or freedom from hierarchical direction. Defining control as freedom to direct clinic policies and staff, the authors found: (1) higher levels of both physician and total staff control in c…
Successful for whom: An Examination of the General Deterrent Impact of the Targeted Killing of Terrorist Leaders on Global Terrorist Fatalities
Targeted killings are a prominent strategy for combatting terrorism and are regularly claimed to deter political violence. Employed against terrorist leaders like Osama bin Laden and others who are argued to be prominent terrorist threats, a growing body of evidence suggests that targeted killings do not achieve their desired general deterrent impacts. Yet, this strategy still enjoys great political support and targeted killings continue to be to…
Why Violence Abates: Imposed and Elective Declines in Terrorist Attacks
Previous scholarship on variations in violence within a given terrorist organization has primarily focused on factors that lead to the inception or destruction of that organization. However, violence varies substantially even during the “prime” of an organization's life. This article aims to understand why violence varies in the short term within many organizations, and places a special focus on declines in violence. Specifically, I argue that te…
Reply to Black
Sociometric Location and Innovativeness: Reformulation and Extension of the Diffusion Model
1968a class, parental encouragement and educational aspirations. American Journal of Sociology 73:559-572. 1968b Parents' education and children's educational aspirations and achievements. American Sociological Review 33:191-209. Sexton, Patrico Cayo 1961 Education and Income. New York: Viking Press. Slater, Marian K. 1969 My son the doctor: Aspects of mobility among American Jews. American Sociological Review 34 (June) :359-373. Smith, Howard P.…
Reply to Black
The Relationship between Physician Characteristics and Prescribing Appropriateness
Primary care physicians in private practice were surveyed in depth to enable evaluation of various structural and sociologic variables as predictors of differential prescribing practices. “Appropriateness” or quality of prescribing behavior was determined by expert judges. While it is often suggested that longer professional experience leads to provision of higher quality medical care, this investigation found more appropriate prescribers to be y…
Control Structure and Conflict in Outpatient Clinics
This paper examines the influence of variations in outpatient clinic control structure on physicians' perception of conflict in three teaching and three community hospital pediatric clinics. In previous work, professional control has been equated with autonomy, or freedom from hierarchical direction. Defining control as freedom to direct clinic policies and staff, the authors found: (1) higher levels of both physician and total staff control in c…
Doctors, Nurses, and Clinical Records
Previous work has suggested a number of relationships between structural characteristics of medical care units and the quality of medical performance. Detailed chart audits were carried out in five comprehensive child care clinics and measures of clinic structure and staff attitudes were also obtained, making it possible to examine some of the proposed relationships. No association was found between chart quality and hospital goals, levels of cli…
The Health Belief Model: Origins and Correlates in Psychological Theory
The Health Belief Model and Sick Role Behavior
Persons denied admission to medical schools: A case of blocked career choice
Sociobehavioral Determinants of Compliance with Health and Medical Care Recommendations
Over the past two decades, hundreds of articles, editorials, and commentaries have been published describing the considerable disruptive effects on quality of care of individuals noncompliance with health and medical advice. While much research has been directed at determining factors responsible for poor compliance, past studies have tended to focus upon easily measured characteristics of the patients, regimen, or illness which, unfortunately, a…
Psychological and Social Factors as Predictors of Medical Behavior
Response to illness was studied in a group of 251 low-income mothers who brought a child to a pediatric clinic for treatment. Measures of illness and use of medical care services for the child constituted the dependent variables; social characteristics of the mother, and her health beliefs and attitudes served as the independent variables. The information was collected by means of personal interviews. A major determinant of seeking care was the p…
Selected Psychosocial Models and Correlates of Individual Health-Related Behaviors
This dataset comprises interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018 with health service users, health professionals and health system managers in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. The interviews focused in particular on the primary health care services covering two of the poorest sub-municipal districts, Cidade Tiradentes and Sapopemba. The Unequal Voices project – Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese – aimed to strengthen the evidence base on the po…
The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment
Marshall H. Becker, Lois A. Maiman, John P. Kirscht, Don P. Haefner, Robert H. Drachman, The Health Belief Model and Prediction of Dietary Compliance: A Field Experiment, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1977), pp. 348-366
Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion
Constance A. Nathanson, Marshall H. Becker, Professional Norms, Personal Attitudes, and Medical Practice: The Case of Abortion, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1981), pp. 198-211
Psychosocial Factors Affecting Adherence to Medical Regimens in a Group of Hemodialysis Patients
The present research was designed to identify psychosocial correlates of adherence among patients receiving hemodialysis at two outpatient clinics. The 116 participants were interviewed concerning their knowledge of treatment, health beliefs, treatment history, social support, personal characteristics, and adherence to the medication, diet and fluid-intake aspects of the regimen. In addition, medical record data were obtained on serum phosphorus …
Contraceptive behavior among unmarried young women: A theoretical framework for research
Patient Adherence to Prescribed Therapies
From the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Role of Self-Efficacy in Achieving Health Behavior Change
The concept of self-efficacy is receiving increasing recognition as a predictor of health behavior change and maintenance. The purpose of this article is to facilitate a clearer understanding of both the concept and its relevance for health education research and practice. Self-efficacy is first defined and distinguished from other related concepts. Next, studies of the self-efficacy concept as it relates to health practices are examined. This re…
Correlates of mothers' use of medications for their children
Family and Peer Influence on Obtaining a Method of Contraception
This study examines the influence of parents peers and partners on teenage womens contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. Data are based on a survey of 2884 unmarried US women under 20 who were making their 1st visit to a family planning clinic. All family planning clinic sites in 21 of Marylands 23 counties were included in the study. The majority of these young women report ac…
Social Learning Theory and the Health Belief Model
The Health Belief Model, social learning theory (recently relabelled social cognitive theory), self-efficacy, and locus of control have all been applied with varying success to problems of explaining, predicting, and influencing behavior. Yet, there is con ceptual confusion among researchers and practitioners about the interrelationships of these theories and variables. This article attempts to show how these explanatory fac tors may be related, …
Self-Management of Chronic Disease by Older Adults: A Review and Questions for Research
This article summarizes the literature describing the at-home management of and psychosocial coping with five chronic diseases (heart disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, and diabetes) by the general population of adults. It also reviews the literature describing self-management of these chronic diseases by older adults. Conclusions drawn subsequent to the review are (a) that there are strong commonalities in the ess…
A Medical Sociologist Looks at Health Promotion
Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the Medical Sociology Section for the Leo G. Reeder Award; it is an exceptional honor, and gives me the opportunity to thank my colleagues and friends who have motivated, supported, and inspired me over the years. Like many of us, I have spent much of my career trying to help health professionals obtain the public's cooperation in extinguishing risky behaviors and undertaking healthy lifestyles.…
The Health Belief Model and HIV Risk Behavior Change
Das Ende der Tage und die Gegenwart des Heils: Begegnungen mit dem Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt. Festschrift für Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn zum 65. Geburtstag
This volume combines articles of established scholars on Jewish and New Testament studies in honor of the New Testament scholar Prof.Dr. Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn, Munich. The articles deal with various aspects of his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Archeology (Bethsaida), Jewish and New Testament Studies. Some of the contributions focus especially on aspects of eschatology in the time of the first century.
The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology. Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books. Pápa, Hungary, 9-11 June 2005
Psychology (26 works) · Political science (21 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Law (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Family medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)