Impact of Mortality Concerns on Cancer Risk Behavior

死亡率担忧对癌症风险行为的影响

• 批准号: 8081239
• 负责人: JAMIE ARNDT
• 金额: $ 25.3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8081239
• 关键词: Address; American Cancer Society; Area; Awareness; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavior assessment; Behavioral; Cancer Model; Cessation of life; Cognition; Communication; Conscious; Decision Making; Diagnosis; Disease; Distal; Effectiveness; Exercise; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Communication; Health behavior change; Human; Individual; Intention; Intervention; Label; Lead; Light; Literature; Malignant Neoplasms; Measures; Modeling; Motivation; National Cancer Institute; Outcome; Prevention; Process; Psychological Theory; Publishing; Research; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Skin tanning; Smoking; Source; Suggestion; Sum; Testing; Thinking; Time; Translating; Unconscious State; United States; base; behavioral health; cancer risk; cancer statistics; effective intervention; insight; mortality; nutrition; prevent; psychologic; response; self esteem; social; theories; tobacco control

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite vital contributions from psychological research, there remain considerable gaps in understanding why individuals engage in behavior that puts their health at risk. However, much of the research literature reveals that health decisions can be influenced by individuals' motivations pertaining to health as well as their motivations to maintain a sense of self-value. Further insights into effective interventions may be gained by considering factors that influence both sources of motivation. In this light an increasing amount of social psychological research shows that both sets of motives can be triggered by conscious and unconscious thoughts of death. Yet this framework has only recently been applied to behavioral health as research indicates that health threats such as cancer can activate concerns about mortality. The proposed research seeks to refine and extend understanding of the interface between mortality concerns and cancer relevant preventative behavior by investigating three central issues. Aim 1 is to examine the effectiveness of targeting health-oriented motivations in the context of health communications that explicitly activate thoughts of death. Aim 2 will examine the effectiveness of targeting self-oriented motivations in the context of health communications that implicitly activate thoughts of death. Aim 3 tests mechanisms by which these interventions can have enduring effects. The broad intention of the proposed project is thus to continue to reveal how concerns about death influence core psychological processes in a number of cancer-relevant areas, with the ultimate goal of reducing cancer rates by providing translational suggestions for more effective interventions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The broad intention of the proposed project is to continue to reveal how concerns about death influence core psychological processes in cancer-relevant areas, with the ultimate goal of reducing cancer rates by providing translational insights for more effective interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管心理学研究做出了重要贡献，但在理解为什么个人会做出危及健康的行为方面仍然存在相当大的差距。然而，许多研究文献表明，健康决策可能受到个人与健康有关的动机以及维持自我价值感的动机的影响。通过考虑影响这两种动机来源的因素，可以进一步了解有效的干预措施。有鉴于此，越来越多的社会心理学研究表明，这两种动机都可以由有意识和无意识的死亡想法触发。然而，这个框架最近才被应用于行为健康，因为研究表明癌症等健康威胁可能会引发对死亡率的担忧。拟议的研究旨在通过调查三个核心问题来完善和扩展对死亡率问题与癌症相关预防行为之间相互作用的理解。目标 1 是检验在明确激发死亡想法的健康传播背景下以健康为导向的动机的有效性。目标 2 将检验在隐含地激发死亡想法的健康沟通背景下针对自我导向动机的有效性。目标 3 测试这些干预措施可以产生持久效果的机制。因此，拟议项目的广泛目的是继续揭示对死亡的担忧如何影响许多癌症相关领域的核心心理过程，最终目标是通过提供更有效干预措施的转化建议来降低癌症发病率。公共健康相关性：拟议项目的总体目的是继续揭示对死亡的担忧如何影响癌症相关领域的核心心理过程，最终目标是通过提供更有效干预措施的转化见解来降低癌症发病率。