The effects of heuristic cues, motivation, and ability on systematic processing of information about breast cancer environmental factors.
The effects of heuristic cues, motivation, and ability on systematic processing of information about breast cancer environmental factors.
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启发式线索、动机和能力对乳腺癌环境因素信息的系统处理的影响。
DOI:
10.1080/10810730.2013.768722
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Atkin,CharlesK
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作者:
Smith,SandiW;Hitt,Rose;Nazione,Samantha;Russell,Jessica;Silk,Kami;Atkin,CharlesK
The heuristic systematic model is used to investigate how ability, motivation, and heuristic message cues predict knowledge scores for individuals receiving messages written for different literacy levels about 3 environmental risk factors for breast cancer. The 3 risk factors were the roles of genetics, progesterone, and ingesting perfluorooctanoic acid in breast cancer risk. In this study, more than 4,000 women participated in an online survey. The results showed support for the hypotheses that ability (measured as education, number of science courses, and confidence in scientific ability) predict knowledge gain and that those individuals who presented with the lower literacy level message had significantly higher knowledge scores across all 3 message topics. There was little support for motivation or heuristic cues as direct predictors of knowledge gain across the 3 message topics, although they served as moderators for the perfluorooctanoic acid topic. The authors provide implications for health communication practitioners.