Scared straight? Fear-appeal anti-smoking campaigns, risk, self-efficacy and addiction

Autor:	J. R. Barnett, Jamie Pearce, Lee Thompson
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Self-efficacy medicine.medical_specialty Social stigma Public health Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Fear appeal Nicotine Smokeless tobacco medicine Psychology Social psychology media_common Qualitative research medicine.drug
Zdroj:	Health, Risk & Society. 11:181-196
ISSN:	1469-8331 1369-8575
DOI:	10.1080/13698570902784281
Popis:	Smokers are becoming increasingly stigmatised in the contemporary West. Based on a qualitative study in Christchurch, New Zealand, this research aimed to investigate the ways that people respond to anti-smoking campaigns and to raise concerns about the ways that fear-appeal campaigns in particular may serve to reinforce the stigmatisation of ‘hard-core’ smokers. Generally, campaigns have been effective and behaviour change has occurred in groups and individuals who have high levels of self-efficacy. Those who do not perceive that they are efficacious respond in a variety of ways to these campaigns, but those unable or unwilling to change their smoking behaviour represent a hard-core of smokers, who may never be able to quit. Rather than simply cast these people as deviant or unruly, we argue that the nature of nicotine addiction should be addressed more broadly. Addiction to nicotine is perceived very differently to addiction to other addictive substances. More attention needs to be paid to different stra...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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