Effects of message anxiety on disease detection and health promotion behaviors
Effects of message anxiety on disease detection and health promotion behaviors
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DOI：
10.1207/s15324834basp1801_6
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Millar, KU
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作者：
Millar, MG;Millar, KU
关于焦虑或恐惧对健康态度的影响的研究得出了不一致的结果。在这篇文章中，有人提出，焦虑信息将与不同类型的健康相关的行为有差异的效果。具体地说，假设产生高水平焦虑的信息对健康促进行为比对疾病检测行为更有效，并且这种效果将与产生低水平焦虑的信息相反。为了验证这一假设，参与者收到了高焦虑或低焦虑的信息，以促进健康促进或疾病检测行为的表现。然后，参与者被要求表明他们对信息的同意，他们对行为的态度，以及他们执行行为的意图。结果表明，被试对健康促进行为的高焦虑信息的反应比对疾病检测行为的反应更积极。
Research examining the effects of anxiety or fear appeals on health attitudes has produced inconsistent findings. In this article it was proposed that anxiety messages would be differentially effective with different types of health-related behavior. specifically, it was hypothesized that messages that produce high levels of anxiety would be more effective with health promotion behaviors than with disease detection behaviors, and that this effect would reverse with messages that produce low levels of anxiety. To test this hypothesis the participants received either high- or low-anxiety messages promoting the performance of either health promotion or disease detection behaviors. Then participants were required to indicate their agreement with the message, their attitudes about the behavior, and their intentions to perform the behavior. The results indicated that the participants responded more positively to high-anxiety messages about health promotion behaviors than about disease detection behaviors.