Reactance to Health Warnings Scale: Development and Validation
| Autor: | Seth M. Noar, Paschal Sheeran, Noel T. Brewer, Marissa G. Hall, Laura Bach, Kurt M. Ribisl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment Applied psychology Reactance Context (language use) Product Labeling Anger Article Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Personality Longitudinal Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Health communication General Psychology Aged media_common Aged 80 and over Motivation 030505 public health Tobacco Products Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Health psychology Health Communication Smoking cessation Female Smoking Cessation 0305 other medical science Psychology Cigarette pack Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 50:736-750 |
| ISSN: | 1532-4796 0883-6612 |
| Popis: | Health warnings may be less effective if they elicit reactance, a motivation to resist a threat to freedom, yet we lack a standard measure of reactance. We sought to validate a new health warning reactance scale in the context of pictorial cigarette pack warnings. A national sample of adults (n = 1413) responded to reactance survey questions while viewing randomly assigned pictorial or text warnings on images of cigarette packs. A separate longitudinal sample of adult smokers received the warnings on their own cigarette packs (n = 46). Factor analyses identified a reliable and valid 27-item Reactance to Health Warnings Scale. In our experimental study, smokers rated pictorial warnings as being able to motivate quitting more than text warnings. However, five reactance scale factors weakened the warnings’ impact (anger, exaggeration, government, manipulation, and personal attack; all p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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