Beliefs, attitudes and perceptions to sun-tanning behaviour in the Norwegian population: a cross-sectional study using the health belief model

Table 3 Bivariate analysis showing means and SD’s for sun behaviour, characteristics and HBM constructs and correlation between the variables (Pearson’s correlation)

	Range	Mean	SD	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1. Sun behaviour	0–7	2.7	0.9	−0.29**	0.01	−0.12**	0.42**	−0.07*	−0.05	0.30**
2. Perceived severity	0–50	35.8	7.3		−0.04	0.27**	−0.36**	0.04	0.15**	0.11**
3. Perceived susceptibility	0–30	11.2	5.2			−0.05	0.10*	−0.24**	− 0.17**	0.00
4. Benefits of protection behaviour	0–24	18.2	3.3				−0.19**	0.24**	0.22**	0.17**
5. Barriers to protection behaviour	0–56	19.8	9.0					−0.10**	−0.28**	0.13**
6. Self-efficacy	0–40	20.9	7.8						0.31**	0.00
7. Empowerment	0–50	38.4	7.4							0.03
8. Benefits of tanning	0–24	16.6	2.9

*Denotes a statistically significant two-tailed p-value < 0.05. **Denotes a statistically significant two-tailed p-value < 0.01

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