Increasing Perceptions of Disease Vulnerability Through Imagery

DePalma, Mary Turner; McCall, Michael; English, Gary

doi:10.1080/07448481.1996.9937536

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“…perceived risk, leading the authors to conclude that perceived risk was "colored by the mental imaging that has occurred" (p. 1859). Similarly, DePalma, McCall, and English (1996) found that imagery was significantly related to perceived vulnerability to AIDS. This imaginative ability would very likely be associated with Openness to Experience, which was the primary determinant of perceived risk in the present study.…”

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Personality Psychology and Problem Behaviors: HIV Risk and the Five‐Factor Model

Trobst

Wiggins

Costa

et al. 2000

Journal of Personality

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Studies of personality and problem behaviors may begin with analyses of the problem and develop hypotheses about personality traits that might be relevant; or they may begin with models of personality and explore links to behavior. Because it is well validated and relatively comprehensive, the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality lends itself to systematic exploratory studies that may sometimes lead to unanticipated findings. In this article, we review a program of research in a high-risk, disadvantaged population that illustrates the utility of the FFM in understanding health risk behavior. Previous analyses showed that behavior associated with the risk of HIV infection can be predicted from the personality dispositions of Neuroticism and (low) Conscientiousness.

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Personality Psychology and Problem Behaviors: HIV Risk and the Five‐Factor Model

Trobst

Wiggins

Costa

et al. 2000

Journal of Personality

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“…Moreover, scenario information influenced the perceived severity of the diseases. Our risk messages-fear arousing messages without any efficacy information-might have led to risk denial (Ruiter, Abraham, & Kok, 2001;Witte & Allen, 2000), especially among those receiving scenario information about HIV (Morris & Swann, 1996;Turner DePalma, McCall, & English, 1996).…”

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HIV/STI Risk Communication

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Health risk judgments are not merely based on risk statistics but also on the ease with which hypothetical events are imagined. We explored the effects of scenario information as opposed to frequency information on susceptibility perceptions regarding Chlamydia and HIV. Results showed that participants felt more susceptible to Chlamydia after reading frequency information. Scenario information only seemed to affect feelings of susceptibility in participants with no intimate relationship. No effects on perceived susceptibility for HIV were found. Results are discussed in terms of severity of the disease and defensive reactions.

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“…We did not expect the Disease and Death messages to affect health risk vulnerability perceptions, however. These messages included none of the information that is known to enhance vulnerability perceptions, such as personal or genetic risk factors (Rippetoe and Rogers 1987; Weinstein 1983; Wurtele and Maddux 1987), probabilities of occurrence (Maddux and Rogers 1983; Mulilis and Lippa 1990), or familiar symptoms (DePalma, McCall, and English 1996). Instead, we predicted a single effect for Disease and Death messages on cognitions.…”

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What to Convey in Antismoking Advertisements for Adolescents: The use of Protection Motivation Theory to Identify Effective Message Themes

Pechmann

Zhao

Goldberg

et al. 2003

Journal of Marketing

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Antismoking advertising is increasingly used, but its message content is controversial. In an initial study in which adolescents coded 194 advertisements, the authors identified seven common message themes. Using protection motivation theory, the authors develop hypotheses regarding the message theme effects on cognitions and intentions and test them in an experiment involving 1667 adolescents. Three of the seven message themes increased adolescents’ nonsmoking intentions compared with a control; all did so by enhancing adolescents’ perceptions that smoking poses severe social disapproval risks. Other message themes increased health risk severity perceptions but were undermined by low perceived vulnerability.

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Increasing Perceptions of Disease Vulnerability Through Imagery

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Personality Psychology and Problem Behaviors: HIV Risk and the Five‐Factor Model

Personality Psychology and Problem Behaviors: HIV Risk and the Five‐Factor Model

HIV/STI Risk Communication

What to Convey in Antismoking Advertisements for Adolescents: The use of Protection Motivation Theory to Identify Effective Message Themes

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