Sentence examples for adopt the behaviour from inspiring English sources

Its major principles stress the effects of reward and punishment (administered by parents, teachers, and peers) on the child's tendency to adopt the behaviour and values of others.

Male offspring are exposed to sponging as often as female offspring, but do not seem to adopt the behaviour early, if at all.

In effect, the antibody causes the wild-type M variant to adopt the behaviour of the pathogenic Z mutant.

The study participants need to adopt a new behaviour (regular walking activity) and the confidence to adopt the behaviour can be influenced through the PF and PS.

The process through which individuals gain greater control over the actions affecting their health is related to 'self-efficacy', i.e. a belief in one's own ability to overcome obstacles and adopt the behaviour one desires.

Self-efficacy influences the skills to adopt the behaviour, and depending on these skills and on barriers preventing the physician from adopting it (the concepts of skills and barriers are derived from the ASE model), these intentions will or will not lead to several core aspects of actual communication behaviour.

In societies where there is no realistic prospect of treatment, there is no evidence to suggest that individuals are more likely to adopt the behaviours that will prevent them from falling sick.

Social influences become increasingly important with an expectation that individuals will adopt the behaviours accepted as the social norm within their peer group, for example, with respect to smoking, eating the same foods, and other behaviours that can impact on oral health [ 6– 8].

We therefore observed a greater impact of smoking in the cohort who are likely to have adopted the behaviour when it was more strongly associated with lower SES.

Our own study provides some support for this, in that girls are thought to initiate smoking by adopting the behaviour of others within their social grouping, in order to assert their identity and membership of that group, and distinguish themselves from others.

Then, to compel the population to follow the authorities' recommendations and to adopt the suitable behaviour in case of a disaster, the information needs to be targeted, in order to take into account (a) the individuals' representation of the risk they incur and (b) the level of legitimacy received from the authorities in charge of risk management.