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Social Conformity
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Definition of 'Social Conformity'Behavioral or attitudinal compliance with recognized social patterns or standards. Common names: Social Conformity; Conformity, Social; Conformities, Social; Social Conformities |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
30 Aug 2009 
Seventy seven college students and 66 middle-aged Mexican women completed an adapted questionnaire of attitudes toward menstrual suppression and the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory. Participants showed a great interest in menstrual ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 The Social Reactivity Scale is a questionnaire measure of individual differences in rebelliousness. The associations between rebelliousness, health behaviours and health outcomes were examined in two Dutch samples by means of cross-sectional survey ... Read more...
The Japanese value of harmony and nursing ethics.
30 Aug 2009 Harmony is one of the most fundamental Japanese values. It is derived from Confucianism and encompasses a state of mind, an action process and outcomes of the action. This article draws on research data and discusses Japanese nurses' perceptions of ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Social Conformity'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Attitudes toward menstrual suppression and conformity to feminine norms in young and middle-aged Mexican women. 30 Aug 2009
- Measuring rebelliousness and predicting health behaviour and outcomes: an investigation of the construct validity of the Social Reactivity Scale. 30 Aug 2009
- The Japanese value of harmony and nursing ethics. 30 Aug 2009
- Alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: a multidimensional model of common and specific etiology. 30 Aug 2009
- Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units. 30 Aug 2009
- Creativity: an organizational schema. 30 Aug 2009
- Meta-analytic moderators of experimental exposure to media portrayals of women on female appearance satisfaction: Social comparisons as automatic processes. 26 Aug 2009
- Social likeability, conformity, and body talk: Does fat talk have a normative rival in female body image conversations? 9 Aug 2009
- Why it is 'better' to be reliable but dumb than smart but slapdash: are intelligence (IQ) and Conscientiousness best regarded as gifts or virtues. 24 Jul 2009
- Aligning identities, emotions, and beliefs to create commitment to sustainable social and political action. 19 Jul 2009
- The racing-game effect: why do video racing games increase risk-taking inclinations? 11 Jul 2009
- Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information. 29 Jun 2009
- Troubled meditations on psychosexual differentiation: reply to Hegarty (2009). 29 Jun 2009
- Childhood gender noncomformity remains a robust and neutral correlate of sexual orientation: reply to Hegarty (2009). 29 Jun 2009
- Toward an LGBT-informed paradigm for children who break gender norms: comment on Drummond et al. (2008) and Rieger et al. (2008). 29 Jun 2009
- Effects of vicarious punishment: a meta-analysis. 29 Jun 2009
- Influence of movie smoking exposure and team sports participation on established smoking. 29 Jun 2009
- Body dissatisfaction and the effects of perceptual exposure on body norms and ideals. 29 Jun 2009
- Evaluating level of specificity of normative referents in relation to personal drinking behavior. 29 Jun 2009
- Assessing the effectiveness of peer-facilitated interventions addressing high-risk drinking among judicially mandated college students. 29 Jun 2009
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Technical information about 'Social Conformity'
Definition: Behavioral or attitudinal compliance with recognized social patterns or standards.
Descriptor UI: D012925
Alternative terms: Social Conformity; Conformity, Social; Conformities, Social; Social Conformities;
Related Mesh Headings: Social Control, Informal;
Tree Number: F01.145.813.625;
History Note: 68
Technical Notes: no qualif