Michael Hennessy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 252376 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Hennessy |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Hennessy |
| ASSINATURA | HENNESSY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7176-3089 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Spillover Effects of Covid-19 News Coverage on Willingness to Participate in Medical Research in a Diverse Sample of US Older Adults
COVID-19 has dominated news coverage since the beginning of the pandemic. The extent to which exposure to such news affected perceptions of medical research and other health issues is not clear, especially among older adults who are more susceptible to infection and experience more COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. This study uses a two-wave national panel of U.S. adults ages 50 years and older ( n = 1,240) to examine the mechanism throug…
Theory-Based Message Design for Recruitment of Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups Into Alzheimer’s-Focused Research Registries
Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-focused recruitment research registries can help identify eligible participants for AD studies, but registry participation is limited among racial and ethnic groups most at risk for AD. Using the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA), this study is part of a larger project to design theory-based persuasive recruitment messages that would encourage registry enrollment among underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. National surv…
Reducing Unhealthy Normative Behavior
American adolescents consume more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) than any other age group. Sports and energy drinks consumption among adolescents is higher than other SSBs. For sports drinks, there is uncertainty about their “healthiness” and also beliefs that these drinks may provide health benefits such as hydration, enhanced athletic performance, heightened mental alertness, and rapid recovery after exercise. Confusion about relative healthi…
Athletes Drink Gatorade
Understanding why sports and energy drinks remain increasingly popular among adolescents despite declines in other sugar sweetened beverages is critical. This study points to memory for advertising exposure and adolescent athletic identity as two aspects that together help to explain consumption. An online survey of U.S. adolescents aged 14–18 (n = 503) was combined with Nielsen data for television and social media advertising expenditures by spo…
Evaluating and tracking qualitative content coder performance using item response theory
A content analysis of sports and energy drink advertising
The Mediating Role of Family and Cultural Food Beliefs on the Relationship between Family Communication Patterns and Diet and Health Issues across Racial/Ethnic Groups
Consumption of red meat has been linked to a variety of health issues, yet Americans are resistant to reducing their meat consumption. Family communication environments shape beliefs about food and meat consumption, and therefore are locations for potential interventions to change the way people think about food. Families are embedded in cultures, and both family and cultural norms shape beliefs about what people should eat. This study (N = 773) …
Glaucoma Community Care
Shared care provides an effective option for managing the ongoing care burden in chronic stable glaucoma cases at low risk of vision loss
Media violence exposure and aggression in adolescents
Media violence exposure (MVE) is associated with aggressive outcomes in adolescents. However, based on the differential susceptibility hypothesis, this risk is expected to vary based on the individual's unique risk and protective factors. Using survey data from 1,990 adolescents (Mean age = 15.6 ± 1.10 years; 48% female) and content analysis of U.S. top-grossing films and popular TV shows, we evaluated the effect of MVE in relation to both risk (…
Do you see what I see? A character analysis of health risk behaviors in television shows popular with Black adolescents in the US
Adolescents spend many hours per day watching television, and there are racial differences in time spent watching television and in show preferences. Prior research suggests there are also differential associations in how exposure to media content affects adolescent behavior. This study examines the demographic representation of main characters and health risk behaviors (i.e., sex, alcohol use, violence, bullying, and their combinations) portraye…
How Patterns of Learning About Sexual Information Among Adolescents Are Related to Sexual Behaviors
Adolescents' learning about sex from informal sources varies by race and gender. Future research should examine whether sexual health interventions and message development can capitalize on these differences
Digital Hood
The 2014 Walrus Haul Out
In this article we examine in real time the political selective exposure process involved when the public confronted the “walrus haul out” of October 2014, a news event attributed by some climate change researchers to the effects of the climate change-driven reduction of Arctic sea ice. Analyzing data assessing the amount of major TV and cable news network coverage of the haul out, and evaluating public opinion data collected from a rolling cross…
Does Diagnosis Make a Difference? Estimating the Impact of an HIV Medication Adherence Intervention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Alcohol, Sex, and Screens
Alcohol use and sexual behavior are important risk behaviors in adolescent development, and combining the two is common. The reasoned action approach (RAA) is used to predict adolescents' intention to combine alcohol use and sexual behavior based on exposure to alcohol and sex combinations in popular entertainment media. We conducted a content analysis of mainstream (n = 29) and Black-oriented movies (n = 34) from 2014 and 2013-2014, respectively…
Risky movies, risky behaviors, and ethnic identity among Black adolescents
Coercion or Caring
Identifying Family Television Practices to Reduce Children’s Television Time
The family system plays an important role in shaping children’s television use. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that parents limit screen time, given the risks associated with children’s heavy television viewing. Researchers have highlighted family television practices that may be effective for reducing children’s viewing, but more work is needed to identify which are most appropriate to communicate to families. Using cross-sec…
Using Psychological Theory to Predict Voting Intentions
Voting is an essential component of civic engagement. To demonstrate the utility of a reasoned action approach to predict voting, we created an instrument that measured non‐normative political beliefs and voting intentions. We identified political beliefs and attitudes of the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street Movement. A total of 2,637 participants from Mechanical Turk completed the survey us…
When it comes to lifestyle recommendations, more is sometimes less
A meta-analysis of 150 research reports summarizing the results of multiple behavior domain interventions examined theoretical predictions about the effects of the included number of recommendations on behavioral and clinical change in the domains of smoking, diet, and physical activity. The meta-analysis yielded 3 main conclusions. First, there is a curvilinear relation between the number of behavioral recommendations and improvements in behavio…
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage-Related Public Service Advertisements and Their Influence on Parents
In this article, we describe a novel experimental approach for identifying the effectiveness of distinct persuasive strategies used in audiovisual (television-format) public service advertisements (PSAs) designed to encourage parents to reduce their children's sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption. Eight-hundred and seven parents were assigned to one of three experimental conditions with exposure to PSAs using distinct emotional appeals (fea…
Perceived Difficulty of Performing Selected HIV/Aids Preventive Behaviors and Life Satisfaction
The Effect of Household Smoking Bans on Household Smoking
Objectives. Because household smoking levels and adoption of domestic smoking rules may be endogenously related, we estimated a nonrecursive regression model to determine the simultaneous relationship between home smoking restrictions and household smoking. Methods. We used data from a May–June 2012 survey of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, households with smokers (n = 456) to determine the simultaneous association between smoking levels in the home …
Increasing Quality of Life and Reducing HIV Burden
Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Objectives. We estimated the long-term (36-month) effects of Project iMPPACS, a multisite randomized controlled trial of mass media and small-group intervention for African American adolescents. Methods. We collected 6 waves of longitudinal data on program participants aged 14 to 17 years (n = 1139) in Providence, Rhode Island; Syracuse, New York; Columbia, South Carolina; and Macon, Georgia, 36 months (December 2009–December 2010) after the inte…
A Model of Adolescents' Seeking of Sexual Content in Their Media Choices
This article reports on the extent to which adolescents report actively seeking sexual content in media, identifies from which media they report seeking, estimates the association between seeking sexual information and romantic and sexual behavior, and shows that active seeking of sexual content in media sources is explained by an intention to seek such content using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, a reasoned action approach. The …
Broken Homes and Middle Class Delinquency a Reassessment
This paper uses data from middle class suburban high school students to examine the relationship between broken homes and self‐reported delinquency. Only small effects of family structure on delinquent acts are discovered. Methodological and theoretical problems which are common to research on broken homes are outlined and the contradictions between our results and those of other researchers are then analyzed from the alternative explanations of …
Estimating the Longitudinal Association Between Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Exposure to Sexual Media Content
The purpose of this study is to estimate the association between adolescent sexual behavior and exposure to sexual media content. A three-wave, longitudinal survey sample (N = 506) of 14- to 16-year-olds at baseline is analyzed using growth curves. Growth trajectories are linear for sexual behavior but not for exposure to sexual media content. The signs of the exposure slopes are not uniformly positive: Hispanic and African American respondents s…
The Growth Machine, Tourism, and the Selling of Culture
This case study of conflict over land use on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i examines the tension between a tourism growth machine and the island's residents. Using newspaper accounts, qualitative observations, and a multidimensional inventory of value structures, the authors conclude that the basis of communal association varies among three groups: the growth machine, island residents who want to limit development, and those who favor diverse ty…
Identifying the Causal Pathways from Religiosity to Delayed Adolescent Sexual Behavior
This study used the Integrative Model as a framework to examine whether religiosity delays onset of coitus among a longitudinal sample of virgins, and investigated the causal pathways of this relationship. In addition, this study examined the behavioral beliefs about the consequences of engaging in sex, which distinguishes between youth who vary in level of religiosity. A further analysis was also conducted to examine whether religiosity offers p…
How Patterns of Learning About Sexual Information Among Adolescents Are Related to Sexual Behaviors
Adolescents' learning about sex from informal sources varies by race and gender. Future research should examine whether sexual health interventions and message development can capitalize on these differences
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
Alcohol, Sex, and Screens
Alcohol use and sexual behavior are important risk behaviors in adolescent development, and combining the two is common. The reasoned action approach (RAA) is used to predict adolescents' intention to combine alcohol use and sexual behavior based on exposure to alcohol and sex combinations in popular entertainment media. We conducted a content analysis of mainstream (n = 29) and Black-oriented movies (n = 34) from 2014 and 2013-2014, respectively…
When it comes to lifestyle recommendations, more is sometimes less
A meta-analysis of 150 research reports summarizing the results of multiple behavior domain interventions examined theoretical predictions about the effects of the included number of recommendations on behavioral and clinical change in the domains of smoking, diet, and physical activity. The meta-analysis yielded 3 main conclusions. First, there is a curvilinear relation between the number of behavioral recommendations and improvements in behavio…
Adolescent Judgment of Sexual Content on Television
Many studies of sexual messages in media utilize content analysis methods. At times, this research assumes that researchers and trained coders using content analysis methods and the intended audience view and interpret media content similarly. This article compares adolescents' perceptions of the presence or absence of sexual content on television to those of researchers using three different coding schemes. Results from this formative research s…
A Value-Based Community Assessment Process
It is argued that community quality of life and social impact studies are similar in nature and can be integrated with a common analytical model for conducting community assessments. All such assessments must incorporate the basic values prevailing in the community, as expressed by community leaders and various segments of the population. Community assessments must also include both objective and subjective procedures, as neither approach is mean…
Digital Hood
Predicting Preferences for Types of Sex Education in US Schools
The Reliability and Stability of General Media Exposure Measures
Chul-joo Leea*, Robert Hornika & Michael Hennessyb a Annenberg School for Communication , University of Pennsylvania , b Annenberg Public Policy Center , University of Pennsylvania
Risky movies, risky behaviors, and ethnic identity among Black adolescents
Bringing It All Together
The combination of programmatic theory and structural equation modeling (SEM) can act as the basic intellectual machinery for designing and evaluating behavioral interventions. As an example of the integration, we consider a case study of a randomized experiment to reduce sexual risk taking, the WINGS Project. Barriers to combining systematic use of SEM with programmatic theory for program improvement and assessing program effectiveness are also …
Community values as the context for interpreting social impacts
Media violence exposure and aggression in adolescents
Media violence exposure (MVE) is associated with aggressive outcomes in adolescents. However, based on the differential susceptibility hypothesis, this risk is expected to vary based on the individual's unique risk and protective factors. Using survey data from 1,990 adolescents (Mean age = 15.6 ± 1.10 years; 48% female) and content analysis of U.S. top-grossing films and popular TV shows, we evaluated the effect of MVE in relation to both risk (…
Bringing it all together
The Quantitative Analysis of Reasoned Action Theory
This article serves as a guide for conducting statistical analyses in a reasoned action context. Using structural equation modeling concepts, the authors identify two elements of reasoned action data: the structural component relating theoretical variables to one another and a measurement component defining the theoretical constructs. The authors then describe a three-step analytic approach: analyzing the proximal determinants of intention to per…
Measurement Models for Reasoned Action Theory
Quantitative researchers distinguish between causal and effect indicators. What are the analytic problems when both types of measures are present in a quantitative reasoned action analysis? To answer this question, the authors use data from a longitudinal study to estimate the association between two constructs central to reasoned action theory: behavioral beliefs and attitudes toward the behavior. The belief items are causal indicators that defi…
Internet privacy and institutional trust
What does the US public believe about the credibility of institutional actors when it comes to protecting information privacy online? Drawing on perspectives of environmental risk, this article addresses the question through a nationally representative telephone survey of 1200 adults who go online at home. A key result is that a substantial percentage of internet users believes that major corporate or government institutions will both help them t…
A content analysis of sports and energy drink advertising
Identifying Family Television Practices to Reduce Children’s Television Time
The family system plays an important role in shaping children’s television use. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that parents limit screen time, given the risks associated with children’s heavy television viewing. Researchers have highlighted family television practices that may be effective for reducing children’s viewing, but more work is needed to identify which are most appropriate to communicate to families. Using cross-sec…
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage-Related Public Service Advertisements and Their Influence on Parents
In this article, we describe a novel experimental approach for identifying the effectiveness of distinct persuasive strategies used in audiovisual (television-format) public service advertisements (PSAs) designed to encourage parents to reduce their children's sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption. Eight-hundred and seven parents were assigned to one of three experimental conditions with exposure to PSAs using distinct emotional appeals (fea…
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Descriptive distortions in covariance based statistics
An Introduction to Applied Sociology
The authors develop a theory of social science utilization that focuses on cognitive processes and their relation to the social context of interaction between social scientists and policy-makers. Their comprehensive approach to the theory of utilization is based on the full range of available case material
Broken Homes and Middle Class Delinquency a Reassessment
This paper uses data from middle class suburban high school students to examine the relationship between broken homes and self‐reported delinquency. Only small effects of family structure on delinquent acts are discovered. Methodological and theoretical problems which are common to research on broken homes are outlined and the contradictions between our results and those of other researchers are then analyzed from the alternative explanations of …
Evaluation Research Methods
The second edition of this best-selling book has been published in response to the increased sophistication and methodological advances of today's evaluation research. Since the first edition was published, attention in the evaluation field has shifted from the outcome of evaluations to their implementation and utilization by decision-makers. This book reflects that trend. Written by leading specialists in evaluation research, this well-integrate…
The End of Methodology? A Review Essay on Evaluation Research Methods
The End of Methodology? a Review Essay On Evaluation Research Methods
E) VALUATION research was one of the largest growth industries in the social sciences during the 1970s. With the current decline in federal expenditures and resultant reductions in appropriation for applied research, we can expect an increased interest in performing technically sound and politically persuasive' evaluations to justify the maintenance of existing programs and to make planned social change efficient and cost effective. Under present…
Community values as the context for interpreting social impacts
Education in Social Impact Assessment and Planning
This paper describes the student project that won the 1982 national award from the American Planning Association It begins with the epistemological orientation that places social values at the cornerstone of Social Impact Assessment. The planning project, electrical self-sufficiency in harmony with community values on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, is then described. The educational format is discussed as a practicum incorporating the assistanc…
A Value-Based Community Assessment Process
It is argued that community quality of life and social impact studies are similar in nature and can be integrated with a common analytical model for conducting community assessments. All such assessments must incorporate the basic values prevailing in the community, as expressed by community leaders and various segments of the population. Community assessments must also include both objective and subjective procedures, as neither approach is mean…
The Growth Machine, Tourism, and the Selling of Culture
This case study of conflict over land use on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i examines the tension between a tourism growth machine and the island's residents. Using newspaper accounts, qualitative observations, and a multidimensional inventory of value structures, the authors conclude that the basis of communal association varies among three groups: the growth machine, island residents who want to limit development, and those who favor diverse ty…
Designing and evaluating alcohol problem community interventions
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Its Relationship to High-Risk Behavior in Women Volunteering for an HIV and STD Prevention Intervention
Bringing It All Together
The combination of programmatic theory and structural equation modeling (SEM) can act as the basic intellectual machinery for designing and evaluating behavioral interventions. As an example of the integration, we consider a case study of a randomized experiment to reduce sexual risk taking, the WINGS Project. Barriers to combining systematic use of SEM with programmatic theory for program improvement and assessing program effectiveness are also …
Bringing it all together
Forked Roads
Evaluating the Risk and Attractiveness of Romantic Partners When Confronted with Contradictory Cues
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Validating an Index of Adolescent Sexual Behavior Using Psychosocial Theory and Social Trait Correlates
Internet privacy and institutional trust
What does the US public believe about the credibility of institutional actors when it comes to protecting information privacy online? Drawing on perspectives of environmental risk, this article addresses the question through a nationally representative telephone survey of 1200 adults who go online at home. A key result is that a substantial percentage of internet users believes that major corporate or government institutions will both help them t…
It Works Both Ways
Using a longitudinal web-based survey of adolescents 14-16 years of age, we estimate regression models where self-reported sexual behavior and content analytic-based exposure to sex in the media are related cross-sectionally and longitudinally. We find evidence for both cross-sectional non-recursive and prospective longitudinal relationships even after adjusting for both established predictors of sexual behavior (e.g., physical development, havin…
HIV interventions affect behavior indirectly
Behavioral theory informs HIV prevention programs by identifying important predictors of the relevant behavior. Changes in those predictors brought about by program messages should theoretically translate into behavior change. Program evaluation, however, may examine only whether message exposure is associated with behavior change, assuming that if people changed their behavior, the intervention must have effectively changed the determinants. Thi…
The Reliability and Stability of General Media Exposure Measures
Chul-joo Leea*, Robert Hornika & Michael Hennessyb a Annenberg School for Communication , University of Pennsylvania , b Annenberg Public Policy Center , University of Pennsylvania
Differentiating Between Precursor and Control Variables When Analyzing Reasoned Action Theories
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
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