Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour
Objective: A tooth-brushing social rank hypothesis is tested suggesting tooth-brushing duration is influenced when individuals position their behaviour in a rank when comparing their behaviour with other individuals. Design: Study 1 used a correlation design, Study 2 used a semi-experimental design...
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| author | Maltby, John Paterson, Kevin Day, Liz Jones, Ceri Kinnear, Hayley Buchanan, Heather |
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| description | Objective: A tooth-brushing social rank hypothesis is tested suggesting tooth-brushing duration is influenced when individuals position their behaviour in a rank when comparing their behaviour with other individuals.
Design: Study 1 used a correlation design, Study 2 used a semi-experimental design, and Study 3 used a randomized intervention design to examine the tooth-brushing social rank hypothesis in terms of self-reported attitudes, cognitions, and behaviour towards tooth-brushing duration.
Methods: Study 1 surveyed participants to examine whether the perceived health benefits of tooth-brushing duration could be predicted from the ranking of each person's tooth-brushing duration. Study 2 tested whether manipulating the rank position of the tooth-brushing duration influenced participant-perceived health benefits of tooth-brushing duration. Study 3 used a longitudinal intervention method to examine whether messages relating to the rank positions of tooth-brushing durations causally influenced the self-report tooth-brushing duration.
Results: Study 1 demonstrates that perceptions of the health benefits from tooth-brushing duration are predicted by the perceptions of how that behaviour ranks in comparison to other people's behaviour. Study 2 demonstrates that the perceptions of the health benefits of tooth-brushing duration can be manipulated experimentally by changing the ranked position of a person's tooth-brushing duration. Study 3 experimentally demonstrates the possibility of increasing the length of time for which individuals clean their teeth by focusing on how they rank among their peers in terms of tooth-brushing duration.
Conclusions: The effectiveness of interventions using social-ranking methods relative to those that emphasize comparisons made against group averages or normative guidelines are discussed. |
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| spelling | nottingham-417032020-05-04T17:53:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41703/ Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour Maltby, John Paterson, Kevin Day, Liz Jones, Ceri Kinnear, Hayley Buchanan, Heather Objective: A tooth-brushing social rank hypothesis is tested suggesting tooth-brushing duration is influenced when individuals position their behaviour in a rank when comparing their behaviour with other individuals. Design: Study 1 used a correlation design, Study 2 used a semi-experimental design, and Study 3 used a randomized intervention design to examine the tooth-brushing social rank hypothesis in terms of self-reported attitudes, cognitions, and behaviour towards tooth-brushing duration. Methods: Study 1 surveyed participants to examine whether the perceived health benefits of tooth-brushing duration could be predicted from the ranking of each person's tooth-brushing duration. Study 2 tested whether manipulating the rank position of the tooth-brushing duration influenced participant-perceived health benefits of tooth-brushing duration. Study 3 used a longitudinal intervention method to examine whether messages relating to the rank positions of tooth-brushing durations causally influenced the self-report tooth-brushing duration. Results: Study 1 demonstrates that perceptions of the health benefits from tooth-brushing duration are predicted by the perceptions of how that behaviour ranks in comparison to other people's behaviour. Study 2 demonstrates that the perceptions of the health benefits of tooth-brushing duration can be manipulated experimentally by changing the ranked position of a person's tooth-brushing duration. Study 3 experimentally demonstrates the possibility of increasing the length of time for which individuals clean their teeth by focusing on how they rank among their peers in terms of tooth-brushing duration. Conclusions: The effectiveness of interventions using social-ranking methods relative to those that emphasize comparisons made against group averages or normative guidelines are discussed. Wiley 2016-05-05 Article PeerReviewed Maltby, John, Paterson, Kevin, Day, Liz, Jones, Ceri, Kinnear, Hayley and Buchanan, Heather (2016) Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour. British Journal of Health Psychology, 21 (2). pp. 374-388. ISSN 1359-107X http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12173/abstract doi:10.1111/bjhp.12173 doi:10.1111/bjhp.12173 |
| spellingShingle | Maltby, John Paterson, Kevin Day, Liz Jones, Ceri Kinnear, Hayley Buchanan, Heather Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title | Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title_full | Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title_fullStr | Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title_short | Social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
| title_sort | social ranking effects on tooth-brushing behaviour |
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