Consideration of future consequences as a moderator of the willingness-behavior relationship for young adult marijuana use and consequences.

ABSTRACT: The Prototype Willingness Model is a dual-processing (i.e., intentional and socially reactive) health-risk behavior model. The socially reactive path includes behavioral willingness, descriptive normative perceptions, and favorable images of individuals who engage in health-risk behavior (prototype favorability) as important predictors of health behaviors. Individual differences (such as consideration of future consequences) may potentiate the effects of behavioral willingness on health-risk outcomes, such as marijuana use. Given limited research investigating marijuana use and the Prototype Willingness Model, the goals of the current study were: 1) examine consideration of future consequences and Prototype Willingness Model social reaction pathway variables in relation to behavioral willi

SUBMITTER: Lewis MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8145774 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature