"Responsible Laziness?": A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Health Decision-Making Among Young Adult College Students

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dc.contributor.advisorBrunson, Emily K.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Shelly A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHamilton, Michelle D.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTaylor, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T19:57:53Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T19:57:53Z
dc.date.issued2024-05
dc.description.abstractYoung adults, including college students, are a high-risk group for many infectious diseases including COVID-19. This is due, in part, to social behaviors and norms regarding personal health practices and beliefs about invulnerability to infection within this group. Young adults also have the lowest rates of vaccination among adults, including for COVID-19 vaccines. Using grounded theory, this research seeks to understand how college students make decisions about their health generally, and COVID-19 boosters specifically, by using qualitative interview data to develop a model that describes young adult college student health decision-making processes. Further, this research considers the relationships between information, decision-making, and health behaviors among college students, and uses this model to demonstrate that common theoretical paradigms of public health research fail to apply to actual decision-making processes.
dc.description.departmentAnthropology
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent42 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationWhite, S. A. (2024). "Responsible laziness?": A grounded theory approach to understanding health decision-making among young adult college students (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/18521
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectmedical anthropology
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectpublic health
dc.subjectcultural anthropology
dc.subjectyoung adult
dc.subjectcollege student
dc.title"Responsible Laziness?": A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Health Decision-Making Among Young Adult College Students
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropology
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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