Attitude and Behavior
A Specification of the Contingent Consistency Hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5249262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth H Andrews, Denise B Kandel (0000-0003-0458-6961) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 298 |
| Publication date | 1979-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2094512 |
| PMID | 475163 |
| OpenAlex | W2318814059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 9 |
The paper tests the contingent consistency hypothesis that social pressures reinforce the effect of attitude on behavior. The attitudes and behaviors pertain to marihuana use; the contingent effects tested are those of parents and peers. The data derive from a large-scale two-wave panel sample of high school students. By decomposing the sample according to the adolescents' specific position in the developmental continuum from marihuana nonuse to initiation to continued use, we identified the conditions under which the hypothesis is supported. No contingent effects appeared over time. Reinforcement of the effect of attitude by social pressures characterized adolescents in the second survey who had shifted from being nonusers to becoming frequent users over the six-month follow-up interval. By contrast, group norms did not interact with attitude to affect simple initiation to marihuana use or continuing marihuana use. Peer-related norms had the greatest interactive impact; parental norms had very little impact. Decomposition of a cohort according to stages of participation in a behavioral sequence made it possible to specify when in that sequence contingent consistency is most likely to appear
Consistency (knowledge bases · Discrete mathematics · Econometrics · Specification · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Mathematics · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Developmental Variation in the Context of Marijuana Initiation among Adolescents
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Voluntary Organizations and Dominant American Values
Self-Generated Identification Codes for Anonymous Collection of Longitudinal Questionnaire Data
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The Self-Regulation of Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior
Attitude-Social Support Interactions
Strength-Related Attitude Dimensions
Resources, Behavior Intentions, and Drug Use
Multiple Routes for Social Influence
Bases of Power, Facilitation Effects, and Attitudes and Behavior
The impact of parental controls on delinquency
Strain, anger, and delinquent adaptations Specifying general strain theory
Predicting Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior
Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Substance Use
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Status‐Based Influence Processes
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Sozialstruktur, Wertorientierungen und Parteibindung
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The role of peer and adult models for drug taking at different stages in adolescence
Categorizing common behavioural antecedents as expressed in everyday language
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Adolescent Marijuana and Alcohol Use
On the Post‐Wittgensteinian Critique of the Concept of Action in Sociology
Early adolescent alcohol abuse in rural northern Michigan
Linking Intentions and Behavior
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents' Attitude-Behavior Consistency
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Ties to Conventional Institutions and Delinquency
Social Learning Theory and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking
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Investigating the Integrated Psychosocial Model of Criminal Social Identity (IPM-CSI) within a sample of community based youth offenders
The Role of Criminal Social Identity in the Relationship between Criminal Friends and Criminal Thinking Style within a Sample of Recidivistic Prisoners
The Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong
The Integrated Psychosocial Model of Criminal Social Identity (IPM-CSI)
Eysenck's Personality Model and Criminal Thinking Style within a Violent and Nonviolent Offender Sample
Youth in two worlds
The epidemiology of drug use among New York State high school students
Causal Inference from Panel Data
Attitudes versus Actions
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| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2022 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |