Dispositional and comparative optimism interact to predict avoidance of a looming health threat.
Dispositional and comparative optimism interact to predict avoidance of a looming health threat.
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性格和比较乐观相互作用，可以预测避免迫在眉睫的健康威胁。
DOI：
10.1080/08870446.2014.977282
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Geers,AndrewL
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作者：
Fowler,StephanieL;Geers,AndrewL
研究表明，当面对健康威胁时，性格和比较乐观的人比性格高但比较乐观的人采用更逃避的应对方式。我们检验了威胁距离调节这种互动乐观关联的假设。在两项研究中，参与者被随机分配到迫在眉睫或遥远的威胁条件下。研究1显示，在迫在眉睫的威胁条件下，相对于性格高但相对乐观程度低的参与者，两种乐观程度高的参与者更有可能将威胁最小化，更不倾向于寻求额外的健康信息。在研究2中，同样的交互模式出现在心理抽象的测量中，表明这些变量结合起来改变了广泛的信息处理策略。讨论了在传递健康状态信息时考虑多种形式的乐观主义的含义。
Research indicates that when confronted with a health threat, individuals high in both dispositional and comparative optimism employ a more avoidant style of coping than individuals high in dispositional but low in comparative optimism. We examined the hypothesis that threat distance moderates this interactive optimism association. In two studies, participants were randomly assigned to a looming or distant threat condition. Study 1 revealed that in the looming threat condition, participants high in both forms of optimism were more likely to minimise the threat and less inclined to seek additional health information relative to participants high in dispositional but low in comparative optimism. In Study 2, the same interaction pattern emerged on a measure of psychological abstraction suggesting these variables combine to alter broad information processing strategies. Implications for considering multiple forms of optimism when delivering health status information are discussed.