Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy?

Milfont, Taciano L.; Vilar, Roosevelt; Araujo, Rafaella C. R.; Stanley, Robert

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01202

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“…Regular smokers are more likely to have low oxygen levels in their organs [71][72][73], making them prone to exhaustion and discouraging them from exercise. Lastly, our finding on the myopic view of the future is consistent with Adam and Nettle [74] and Milfont et al [75], who find that forward-thinking people are more likely to exercise. Intrinsically, such people are more likely to be concerned about future consequences.…”

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Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior in the United States

2021

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Lack of exercise is an important public health issue in the United States due to its link to obesity and other health risk factors. Despite several policy interventions, many Americans do not exercise sufficiently. Given recent findings that financial literacy helps to improve people’s rational decision-making ability and encourages people to exercise in Japan, we conduct a similar study for the United States, which has also been experiencing lack of exercise but has a different cultural setting. Culture has important influences on decision making and exercise behavior. This study investigates whether financial literacy is associated with exercise behavior in the United States. We used Osaka University’s 2010 Preference Parameters Study dataset and performed a probit regression analysis to test our hypothesis that financially literate people are likely to exercise more. In support of our hypothesis, we find that Americans with better financial literacy are more likely to exercise at least once a week. Additionally, financial education has a similar association with exercise behavior. Our results suggest that authorities could consider using financial literacy as an alternative policy intervention to promote regular exercise among the American population.

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Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior in the United States

2021

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“…These findings are inconsistent with other studies. For the myopic view of future variable, Adams and Nettle [91] and Milfont et al [92] found a positive relationship between forwardthinking and physical activity. Meanwhile, Hunter et al [93] found a specific relationship between risk preference and physical activity.…”

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Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior: Evidence from Japan

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Lack of exercise, which increases the risk of many serious physical and mental illness, has been a common health issue in Japan. Recent studies confirm that financial literacy discourages irrational behavior like gambling and smoking. We therefore investigate how financial literacy, as a rational decision-making instrument, relates to peoples’ exercise behavior in Japan. We hypothesize that financial literacy encourages people to exercise regularly. Using Osaka University’s Preference Parameters Study (PPS) for 2010, we categorized respondents into two groups: those who exercise regularly or at least once a week and those who do not. Our probit estimation results show that financial literacy is positively related with exercise behavior, meaning that financially literate people are more likely to exercise regularly. As the COVID-19 health pandemic seems to exacerbate peoples’ physical inactivity, the results of our study show an alternative approach to encourage exercise. We therefore recommend that governments implement a financial literacy improvement policy to alleviate the lack of exercise.

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“…Many cross-cultural replications have been published in this journal (e.g., Gabriel et al, 2001; Irwin, Engle, Klein, & Yarbrough, 1976; Milfont, Sibley, & Duckitt, 2010; Vauclair, Hanke, Fischer, & Fontaine, 2011) and elsewhere (e.g., Ekman & Heider, 1988; Milfont, Vilar, Araujo, & Stanley, 2017; Sidanius, Levin, Liu, & Pratto, 2000). However, there has been an increased focus on replication in recent years, and several large projects have started to investigate the reproducibility of psychological findings.…”

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Replication and Reproducibility in Cross-Cultural Psychology

Milfont

Klein

2018

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Replication is the scientific gold standard that enables the confirmation of research findings. Concerns related to publication bias, flexibility in data analysis, and high-profile cases of academic misconduct have led to recent calls for more replication and systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge in psychological science. This renewed emphasis on replication may pose specific challenges to cross-cultural research due to inherent practical difficulties in emulating an original study in other cultural groups. The purpose of the present article is to discuss how the core concepts of this replication debate apply to cross-cultural psychology. Distinct to replications in cross-cultural research are examinations of bias and equivalence in manipulations and procedures, and that targeted research populations may differ in meaningful ways. We identify issues in current psychological research (analytic flexibility, low power) and possible solutions (preregistration, power analysis), and discuss ways to implement best practices in cross-cultural replication attempts.

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Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy?

Cited by 15 publications

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Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior in the United States

Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior in the United States

Financial Literacy and Exercise Behavior: Evidence from Japan

Replication and Reproducibility in Cross-Cultural Psychology

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