Steven Prentice‐dunn

Biographic Data

ID4889542
NAMESteven Prentice‐dunn
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEPrentice‐dunn
SIGNATUREDUNN S P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX4

  • Protection Motivation Theory and Stages of Change in Sun Protective Behavior

    Open AccessSteven Prentice-Dunn, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2009Cited by: 9References: 22

    This study examined the usefulness of the stage of change model and protection motivation theory (PMT) in creating brief persuasive appeals to promote healthy sun-behavior. College women ( N = 254) read one of four essays that manipulated the level of threat and coping appraisal. The transition from the precontemplation to contemplation stage was promoted by threat appraisal information, but transition from contemplation to the preparation stage …

  • Reducing Skin Cancer Risk: An Intervention Based on Protection Motivation Theory

    Open AccessBrian T Mcclendon, Steven Prentice-Dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2001Cited by: 5References: 12

    Caucasian college students who intentionally tanned participated in a brief skin cancer intervention based on protection motivation theory (PMT). This intervention targeted skin appearance and consisted of brief lectures, a comprehensive essay, video clips about a young man who died of melanoma, and short discussions. Compared to a waitlist control group, the intervention group showed increases on PMT variables and intentions at post-test. The wa…

  • A Meta‐Analysis of Research on Protection Motivation Theory

    Open AccessDONNA L FLOYD, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Social…2000

    This article reports the first meta‐analysis of the literature on protection motivation theory (Rogers, 1975, 1983; Rogers & Prentice‐Dunn, 1997), a model of disease prevention and health promotion that has generated research for over two decades. The literature review included 65 relevant studies ( N = approximately 30,000) that represented over 20 health issues. The mean overall effect size ( d += 0.52) was of moderate magnitude. In general, in…

  • Protection Motivation Theory and Alcohol Use Attitudes among Older Adults

    Open AccessChristopher Runge, Steven Prentice-Dunn et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1993

    Responses of 17 elderly persons and 20 VA inpatients with alcohol-abuse problems (all 60 yr. or older) to an Alcohol Attitude Survey administered by telephone and interview were examined. Inpatients felt more vulnerable, perceived higher costs in moderating drinking, and showed lower response efficacy. Inpatients consumed substantially more alcohol than the community-dwelling elders. Hypotheses for study were generated

  • The Parental Locus of Control Scale: Development and Validation

    Leslie K Campis, Robert D Lyman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Clinical Child…1986

    The purpose of this project was to construct an instrument for the assessment of parental locus of control. In Study 1, the scale was constructed and administered to I47parents. Data analyses yielded a five-factor solution with acceptable indices of reliability. The purpose of Study 2 was to establish the construct and discriminant validity of the Parental Locus of Control (PLOC) Scale. The PLOC and seven additional scales assessing related perso…

  • Protection Motivation Theory and preventive health: Beyond the Health Belief Model

    Steven Prentice-Dunn, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEHealth Education Research1986

    As the importance of social psychological factors in health has been increasingly recognized, a premium has been increasing recognized, a premium has been placed on the elucidation of theoretical models of preventive health behavior. Two of the more comprehensive and extensively investigated models advanced are the Health Belief oodel and Protection Motivation Theory. In the present article, the organization and research of the two frameworks are…

  • Effects of Self-Awareness and Expectancies on Behavioral Intentions: Integrating Self-Efficacy Theory and Control Theory

    Open AccessSteven Prentice-Dunn, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

    This research investigated the contributions of variables from self-efficacy theory and control theory to behavioral change In a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design, three between-subjects variables (low and high levels of self-efficacy expectancy, outcome expectancy, and self-awareness) were manipulated. Subjects were exposed to written communications that differed in descriptions of the effectiveness of a certain coping behavior (outcome expectancy) and…

  • The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation

    Open AccessMark Sherer, James E Maddux et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982

    Self-efficacy theory asserts that personal mastery expectations are the primary determinants of behavioral change. Further, it is suggested that individual differences in past experiences and attribution of success to skill or chance result in different levels of generalized self-efficacy expectations. To measure these generalized expectancies, a Self-efficacy Scale was developed. A factor analysis yielded two subscales: a General Self-efficacy s…

  • Effects of public and private self-awareness on deindividuation and aggression

    Steven Prentice-Dunn, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1982Cited by: 16

  • Deindividuation and anger-mediated interracial aggression: Unmasking regressive racism

    Ronald W Rogers, Steven Prentice-Dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1981

  • Effects of deindividuating situational cues and aggressive models on subjective deindividuation and aggression

    Steven Prentice-Dunn, Steven Prentice‐dunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1980Cited by: 4References: 2

    This experiment demonstrated that a subjective state of deindividuation mediates the effect of deindividuating situational cues on aggression displayed by small groups (n = 4) of coacting aggressors. The deindividuated state was composed of two factors, Self-Awareness and Altered Experiencing, both of which had a causal influence on aggressive behavior. These data are interpreted in terms of deindividuation theories which assume that certain inpu…