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Predicting risk behaviors: development and validation of a diagnostic scale.
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The RBD scale is demonstrated to have a high degree of content, construct, and predictive validity and offers guidance to practitioners on how to develop the best persuasive message possible to motivate healthy behaviors.Abstract:Â
The goal of this study was to develop and validate the Risk Behavior Diagnosis (RBD) Scale for use by health care providers and practitioners interested in promoting healthy behaviors. Theoreticall...read more
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A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns
Kim Witte,Mike Allen +1 more
TL;DR: The meta-analysis suggests that strong fear appeals produce high levels of perceived severity and susceptibility, and are more persuasive than low or weak fear appeals, and the results indicate that fear appeals motivate adaptive danger control actions such as message acceptance and maladaptive fear control actionssuch as defensive avoidance or reactance.
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Fear appeals and information security behaviors: an empirical study
TL;DR: Investigation of the influence of fear appeals on the compliance of end users with recommendations to enact specific individual computer security actions toward the mitigation of threats suggests that fear appeals do impact end user behavioral intentions to comply with recommended individual acts of security, but the impact is not uniform across all end users.
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Impact of Informing Overweight Individuals about the Role of Genetics in Obesity: An Online Experimental Study
TL;DR: Dissemination of information about obesity genetics may have neither a beneficial nor a harmful impact on how overweight individuals perceive themselves, but some overweight individuals may be interested in receiving personalized genetic information.
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What do systems users have to fear? using fear appeals to engender threats and fear that motivate protective security behaviors
TL;DR: A careful review of the foundation for PMT identified four opportunities for improving ISec PMT research, including manipulated fear appeals, and a new model was tested that demonstrated better results and stronger fit than the existing models and confirms the efficacy of the four potential improvements.
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Afraid to travel after COVID-19? Self-protection, coping and resilience against pandemic 'travel fear '
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored what trigger the public's pandemic "travel fear" and how people impose self-protection, coping and resilience related to travel and found that travel fear can evoke different coping strategies, which increases people's psychological resilience and adoption of cautious travel behaviors.
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TL;DR: A protection motivation theory is proposed that postulates the three crucial components of a fear appeal to be (a) the magnitude of noxiousness of a depicted event; (b) the probability of that event's occurrence; and (c) the efficacy of a protective response.
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