Conditional health threats: health beliefs, decisions, and behaviors among adults.
Conditional health threats: health beliefs, decisions, and behaviors among adults.
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DOI：
10.1037//0278-6133.11.2.127
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1992
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D. Ronis
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D. Ronis
本研究将健康信念模式与主观期望效用理论相结合，提出健康信念与预防决策关系的假设。这一理论组合的核心含义是以明确取决于行动的方式对健康威胁进行概念化、衡量和沟通的重要性。重要的是要区分，例如，如果一个人采取和不采取预防措施，他或她认为他或她会有多容易患上某种疾病。进行了一项关于假设预防行动的判断的实验研究，以测试许多理论推导的假设。牙线使用行为的相关性研究进行了测试的假设，因为他们适用于公开的行为，而不是判断。这两项研究的结果支持大多数测试的假设，特别是那些与健康威胁的条件概念化。理论，研究方法和实际应用的影响进行了讨论。
We combined the health belief model with the theory of subjective expected utility to derive hypotheses about the relations among health beliefs and preventive decisions. The central implication of this combination of theories is the importance of conceptualizing, measuring, and communicating about health threats in ways that are clearly conditional on action. It is important to distinguish, for example, between how susceptible to a disease a person thinks he or she would be if that person were and were not to take a preventive action. An experimental study of judgments about a hypothetical preventive action was conducted to test many of the theoretically derived hypotheses. A correlation study of dental flossing behavior was conducted to test the hypotheses as they apply to overt behavior rather than to judgment. Results of both studies supported most of the tested hypotheses, especially those related to the conditional conceptualization of health threats. Implications for theory, research methods, and practical applications are discussed.