Correlates of Tattoos and Reference Groups

@article{Roberts2006CorrelatesOT,
  title={Correlates of Tattoos and Reference Groups},
  author={Alden E. Roberts and Jerome Richard Koch and Myrna L. Armstrong and Donna C. Owen},
  journal={Psychological Reports},
  year={2006},
  volume={99},
  pages={933 - 934}
}
520 college students from a public university in the southwest were questioned to examine correlations between having a tattoo and the presence of tattoos among their family and friends. Tattoos among both friends and family were positively correlated with respondents' having a tattoo. The magnitude of friends' influence was about double the influence of family. 
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