Trait Anxiety and Economic Risk Avoidance Are Not Necessarily Associated: Evidence from the Framing Effect.
Trait Anxiety and Economic Risk Avoidance Are Not Necessarily Associated: Evidence from the Framing Effect.
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特质焦虑和经济风险规避不一定相关：来自框架效应的证据
DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00092
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Luo YJ
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文献类型：
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作者：
Gu R;Wu R;Broster LS;Jiang Y;Xu R;Yang Q;Xu P;Luo YJ
根据以往的文献，特质焦虑与风险决策过程中选择安全选项的倾向，即风险回避有关。在我们看来，焦虑者的风险偏好实际上可能反映了他们对情感信息的敏感性。为了检验这一假设，采用了一项可以引起框架效应的决策任务。框架效应表明，风险偏好可以通过描述中包含的情感信息来调节（即，选择）。行为实验结果显示了经典的框架效应。此外，个体特质焦虑水平与框架效应大小呈正相关。然而，特质焦虑与风险回避率在任何条件下都不相关。最后，焦虑与框架效应之间的关系仍然显着后，抑郁水平也考虑在内。最后，对本研究的理论意义和主要局限性进行了讨论。
According to previous literature, trait anxiety is related to the tendency to choose safety options during risk decision-making, that is, risk avoidance. In our opinion, anxious people’s risk preference might actually reflect their hypersensitivity to emotional information. To examine this hypothesis, a decision-making task that could elicit the framing effect was employed. The framing effect indicates that risk preference could be modulated by emotional messages contained in the description (i.e., frame) of options. The behavioral results have showed the classic framing effect. In addition, individual level of trait anxiety was positively correlated with the framing effect size. However, trait anxiety was not correlated with risk-avoidance ratio in any condition. Finally, the relationship between anxiety and the framing effect remained significant after the level of depression was also taken into account. The theoretical significance and the major limitations of this study are discussed.