INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY VARIABLES ON INTENTION OF PERFORMING BREAST SELF EXAMINATION
Keywords:
Breast self exam, Body image, Rationality-emotionalityAbstract
In a study about Breast Self Examination (BSE) based on
the Theory of Planned Action (Ajzen, 1985, 1988), seventy women aged
between 20 and 60 years answered a questionnaire about BSE and two
scales, one on body image and the other measuring their degree of
emotionality x rationality. Women who had jobs and a higher levei of
education presented a more favorable body image. No significam relationships
were found between the three measures. Questionnaire results
confirmed the data obtained on two previous studies on the subject using
the same model. The influence of normative beliefs and the subjective
norm, on behavioral intention, was present in ali three studies: their results
are compaired and discussed.
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college women; analysis of linear structural relations. Journal of Applied Social
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Ajzen, I. (1987). Attitudes, traits and actions: dispositional prediction of behavior in
personality and social psychology. Em L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in social
psychology, vol. 20. New York: Academic Press.
Ajzen, I. (1988). Attitudes personality and behavior. Milton Keynes, G.B.: Open University
Press.
Ajzen, I. & Fishbein, M. (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.: Prentice-Hall.
Assmar, E. & Rodrigues, A. (1989). Uma escala para medir racionalidade/emocionalidade.
Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 41 (2), 22-28.
Backer, L (1982). Breast câncer detection project: five years summary report. C.A.:
Câncer Journal for Clinicians, 32(4), 194-225.
Calnan, M. (1985). Patterns in preventive behavior: a study of women in middle age.
Social Science Medicine, 20 (3), 263-268.
Calnan, M & Rutter, D. (1984). Do health beliefs predict health behavior? An analysis
of breast câncer self-examination. Social Science and Medicine, 22 (6), 673-678.
Calnan, M. & Rutter, D. (1988). Do health beliefs predict health behavior? A follow-up
analysis of breast self-examination. Social Science and Medicine, 26, 463-465.
Celentano, D. & Holtzman, D. (1983). Breast self-examination competency: an analysis
of self-reported practice and associated characteristics. American Journal of
Public Health, 73(11), 1321-1323.
D'Amorim, M.A. (1990). La motivacion para el auto examen de mama: una aplicación
de la Teoria de Acción Racional. Memórias, EVEMO, 438-443.
D'Amorim, M.A. (1992). A motivação para realizar o auto-exame da mama; uma
aplicação da Teoria de Ação Planejada. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 8 (2),
169-185.
Fallon, A. & Rozin, P.(1985). Sex differences in perceptions of desirable body shape.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 94 (1), 102-105.
Farias, F. & Carvalho, S. (1987). Escala de auto avaliação sobre o esquema corporal.
Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 39(3), 23-25.
Foster, R.S. Lang, S.P. Constanza, M.C. Worden, J.K. Haines, CR. & Yates, J.W.
(1978). Breast self-examínation practices and breast câncer stage. The New
England Journal of Medicine, 299(6), 265-270.
Franzoi, S. & Herzog, M. (1986). The body esteem scale: a convergent and discriminant
validity study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 50(1), 24-31
Franzoi, S. & Herzog, M. (1987). Judging physical attractiveness: what body aspects
do we use? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 73(1), 19-33.
Franzoi, S. & Shields, S. (1984). The body-esteem scale: multidimensional structure
and sex differences in a college populatíon. Journal of Personality Assessment,
48(2), 173-178.
Greenwald, P. Nasça, P.C.; Lawrence, CE. Horton, J. McGarrah, R.P. Gabriele, T. &
Carlton, K. (1978). Estimated effect of breast examination and routine physician
examinations on breast câncer mortality. The New England Journal of Medicine,
299 (6), 271 -273.
Grube, J.; Morgan, M. & McGee, T. (1986). Altitudes and normative beliefs as predictors
of smoking intentions and behaviors: a test of three models. Journal of Psychology,
25, 81-93.
Hill, D. Gardner, G. & Rassaby, J. (1985). Factors predispositing women to take
precautions against breast and cervix câncer. Journal of Applied Social Psychology,
15(1), 59-79.
Howe, H.L (1981). Social factors associated with breast self-examination among
high-risk womem. American Journal of Public Health, 71, 251-255.
Huguley, CM. & Brown, R.L (1981). Thevalue of breast self-examination. Câncer, 47,
989-995.
Ronis, D. & Kaiser, M. (1989). Correlates of breast self-examination in a sample of
college women; analysis of linear structural relations. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 19 (13), 1068-1084.
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Alice D’Amorim, M. (2013). INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY VARIABLES ON INTENTION OF PERFORMING BREAST SELF EXAMINATION. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 9(2), 315–328. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17221
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