Further the choice of mood enhancing behaviour may be influenced by current behaviour or biological sex.
Symbolic social exclusion can limit health enhancing behaviour through reducing a person's feelings of self-adequacy and self-control (Evans and Stoddart 1990).
Mass media campaigns target attitudes by providing information about the positive benefits of health enhancing behaviour and/or the negative costs of health threats.
The recruitment of participants through playgroups is beneficial as it will encourage all playgroup members to register for the program, thereby not just recruiting those who are motivated to adopt health enhancing behaviour [ 63].
The importance of men's partners in decision-making, optimising motivation and enhancing behaviour change was also emphasised, supporting evidence from men undergoing AS [ 20, 25] and from other disease areas (e.g. cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes) [ 10, 11].
Table 2 depicts Pearson's correlation coefficients among comparative risk judgements for gum disease, toothdecay and tooth loss and personal risk experience in terms of self-reported health enhancing behaviour, health detrimental behaviour, health status and satisfaction with teeth.
