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Health Education Research Advance Access published online on April 4, 2008
Health Education Research, doi:10.1093/her/cyn013
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A review of similarities between domain-specific determinants of four health behaviors among adolescents

Louk W. H. Peters1,2,*, Carin H. Wiefferink2, Femke Hoekstra2,4, Goof J. Buijs3, Geert T. M. ten Dam1 and Theo G. W. M. Paulussen2

1 Graduate School of Teaching and Learning, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1018 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 TNO Quality of Life, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE Leiden, The Netherlands
3 Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 3440 AM Woerden, The Netherlands

Correspondence to: * Correspondence to: L. W. H. Peters. E-mail: louk.peters{at}tno.nl

Schools are overloaded with health promotion programs that, altogether, focus on a broad array of behavioral domains, including substance abuse, sexuality and nutrition. Although the specific content of programs varies according to the domain focus, programs usually address similar concepts: knowledge, attitudinal beliefs, social influences and skills. This apparent conceptual overlap between behaviors and programs provides opportunities for a transfer-oriented approach which will stimulate students to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned in one domain (e.g. skills for resisting tobacco use) to other domains (e.g. alcohol, sex). A requirement for such an approach is that behaviors share at least some determinants. This review addresses this issue by examining similarities between domain-specific determinants of smoking, drinking, safe sex and healthy nutrition among adolescents. Recent empirical studies and reviews were examined. The results show that the following determinants are relevant to all four behaviors: beliefs about immediate gratification and social advantages, peer norms, peer and parental modeling and refusal self-efficacy. Several other determinants have been found to relate to at least two behaviors, e.g. health risk beliefs and parental norms. These results can be used for the development of a transfer-oriented school health promotion curriculum.

4 F. Hoekstra is currently employed by Health Service Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Received on September 18, 2006; accepted on February 11, 2008


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