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Health Psychology. Vol 10(1), 1991, 52-61.

Examined the relation of psychosocial and behavioral conventionality-unconventionality to health-related behavior in cross-sectional data from 1,588 7th-12th graders. Conventionality-unconventionality was represented by personality, perceived social environment, and behavior variables selected from the social-psychological framework of problem-behavior theory developed by R. Jessor and S. L. Jessor (1977). Greater psychosocial conventionality correlates with more regular involvement in health-related behavior (e.g., regular physical activity). Greater behavioral conventionality (i.e., less involvement in problem behaviors such as delinquent-type behavior) was also associated with greater involvement in health-maintaining behavior. Findings support the extension of problem-behavior theory to the domain of adolescent health behavior and for the relevance of the dimension of conventionality-unconventionality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

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