The effects of culture and self-construal on responses to threatening health information.
The effects of culture and self-construal on responses to threatening health information.
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文化和自我认知对威胁性健康信息反应的影响。
DOI：
10.1080/08870446.2011.652963
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Roper-Coleman,Sarah
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作者：
Jacobson,JillA;Ji,Li-Jun;Ditto,PeterH;Zhang,Zhiyong;Sorkin,DaraH;Warren,SarahK;Legnini,Veronica;Ebel-Lam,Anna;Roper-Coleman,Sarah
目的：目前的研究检验了自我增强中的文化和自我认知差异是否延伸到了对健康威胁的防御反应。设计：在实验 1 中比较了亚裔美国人和欧洲北美人对虚构医疗诊断的反应，在实验 3 中比较了以相互依赖与独立自我认知为基础的加拿大人之间的反应。在实验 2 中，在阅读了一篇将软饮料消费与胰岛素联系起来的文章后，评估了大量或少量软饮料消费者的中国人和加拿大人的反应主要结果指标：主要依赖指标反映了参与者对威胁性健康信息与非威胁性健康信息的防御性。结果：在实验 1 中，所有参与者对不利诊断的反应比对有利诊断的防御性更强；然而，亚裔美国人的反应不如欧洲裔北美人那么防御性。在实验 2 中，所有高量软饮料消费者比低量软饮料消费者更不相信威胁信息；然而，在高消费群体中，中国人自我报告的消费水平变化小于欧洲裔加拿大人。在实验3中，与独立启动的参与者相比，相互依赖启动的参与者对不利诊断的防御反应较少。结论：对威胁性健康信息的防御反应一致；然而，具有西方文化背景或独立自我建构的个体的自我增强更为明显。
Objective:The current studies examined if cultural and self-construal differences in self-enhancement extended to defensive responses to health threats.Design:Responses to fictitious medical diagnoses were compared between Asian-Americans and European-North Americans in Experiment 1 and between Canadians primed with an interdependentversusan independent self-construal in Experiment 3. In Experiment 2, the responses of Chinese and Canadians who were either heavy or light soft drink consumers were assessed after reading an article linking soft drink consumption to insulin resistance.Main outcome measure:The primary-dependent measure reflected participants’ defensiveness about threateningversusnonthreatening health information.Results:In Experiment 1, all participants responded more defensively to an unfavourable than a favourable diagnosis; however, Asian-Americans responded less defensively than did European-North Americans. In Experiment 2, all high soft drink consumers were less convinced by the threatening information than were low soft drink consumers; however, among high consumers, Chinese changed their self-reported consumption levels less than did European-Canadians. In Experiment 3, interdependence-primed participants responded less defensively to an unfavourable diagnosis than did independence-primed participants.Conclusion:Defensive reactions to threatening health information were found consistently; however, self-enhancement was more pronounced in individuals with Western cultural backgrounds or independent self-construals.