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Gray, Lauren S.

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The Effects of Temporal Distance on Health Behavior Intention Formation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Effects of Temporal Distance on Health Behavior Intention Formation./
Author:	Gray, Lauren S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	269 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	Psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10935243
ISBN:	9780438566460

The Effects of Temporal Distance on Health Behavior Intention Formation.
Gray, Lauren S.

The Effects of Temporal Distance on Health Behavior Intention Formation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 269 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The aim of my dissertation is to understand how people make decisions about their health. Decision-making is a complex psychological process. Health behavior change theories have suggested a number of factors that inform decision-making and lead to behavior change. One of the factors that influences the decision-making process is the time at which behavioral performance is relevant, but this has not been tested and replicated in a health behavior context. Time refers to when we are asking people to engage in a health behavior (i.e. exercise this week or a year from now). It is essential to explore the role of time reference, because any systematic differences time reference produces in the decision-making process will affect whether and how we address time references in designing persuasive health messages. Alternately, if it produces no systematic differences, this will affect persuasive message design as well in that we may not have to consider it when designing health messages. We can use theory to guide us in understanding and predicting health behavior. The more we understand about how people make decisions about engaging in certain health behaviors, the more accurately we can predict these health behaviors. Accurately predicting health behaviors has implications for communication research and health message design. Using a theory-based approach helps us better understand and predict health behavior decision-making, which is a necessary first step to persuasive health message design. In the present research, I use reasoned action theory and construal level theory. Reasoned action theory is a behavioral theory that has proven efficacy in identifying factors that underlie any given behavior. Construal level theory is a social cognitive psychological theory that argues that people construe a behavior abstractly when framed in distal, far future terms and concretely when framed in proximal, near future terms. These theories are being used in concert to test how temporal distance affects intention formation. To this end, my research is a series of three nested studies, beginning with formative research on my target audience and several health behaviors and ending with suggestions for persuasive message design. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).

ISBN: 9780438566460Subjects--Topical Terms:

519075
Psychology.

The Effects of Temporal Distance on Health Behavior Intention Formation.
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