Reducing Information Avoidance Through Affirmation
Reducing Information Avoidance Through Affirmation
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797611424164
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Shepperd, James A.
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作者：
Howell, Jennifer L.;Shepperd, James A.
尽管对医学问题进行筛查对健康有益，但结果的潜在威胁性可能导致人们避免进行筛查。在三项研究中，我们考察了肯定人们的自我价值是否会减少他们对医疗筛查反馈的回避。参与者完成了一份虚拟医疗状况的在线风险计算器，然后可以选择接收或不接收他们的风险反馈。我们的研究结果表明，肯定减少了参与者对风险反馈的回避（研究1），并消除了当风险反馈可能迫使人们从事不希望的行为（研究2）和当反馈是关于不可治愈疾病的风险（研究3）时通常观察到的增加的回避。这些发现表明，肯定可能是提高医疗筛查率的有效策略。
Although screening for medical problems can have health benefits, the potentially threatening nature of the results can lead people to avoid screening. In three studies, we examined whether affirming people's self-worth reduces their avoidance of medical-screening feedback. Participants completed an online risk calculator for a fictitious medical condition and then were offered a choice to receive or not receive their risk feedback. Our results showed that affirmation decreased participants' avoidance of risk feedback (Study 1) and eliminated the increased avoidance typically observed when risk feedback might obligate people to engage in undesired behavior (Study 2) and when feedback is about risk for an untreatable disease (Study 3). These findings suggest that affirmation may be an effective strategy for increasing rates of medical screening.