Exploring the Links Between Risk Perceptions and Preventive Health Behavior

Social Psychological Foundations of Health and Illness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 22-53

  Weinstein, Neil D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Education programs; Health behavior; Research; Risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948970525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753552.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

References (71)

1. Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior. In J. Kuhl and J. Beckmann (Eds.), Action Control: From Cognition to Behavior (pp. 11-40). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2. Ajzen, I., and Fishbein, M. (1980). Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
3. Ajzen, I., and Madden, T. J. (1986). Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 22, 453-74.
4. Bandura, A. (1995). Moving into forward gear in health promotion and disease prevention. Address presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA, March.
5. Chandler, C. C., and Greening, L. A. (1995). It can't happen to me ... Or can it? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Los Angeles, CA.
6. Doyle, J. K., McClelland, G. H., and Schulze, W. D. (1991). Protective responses to household risk: A case study of radon mitigation. Risk Analysis, 11, 121-34.
7. Edwards, W. (1954). The theory of decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 51, 380-417.
8. Farkas, A. J., Pierce, J. P., Gilpin, E. A., Zhu, Shu-Hong, Rosbrook, B., Berry, C., and Kaplan, R. M. (1996). Is stage-of-change a useful measure of the likelihood of smoking cessation? Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 18, 79-86.
9. Fishbein, M., and Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, Attitude, Intention and Behavior: An Introduction to Theory and Research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
10. Fishbein, M., and Middlestadt, S. E. (1989). Using the theory of reasoned action as a framework for understanding and changing AIDS-related behaviors. In V. M. Mays, G. W. Albee and S. F. Schneider (Eds.), Primary Prevention of AIDS: Psychological Approaches (pp. 93-110). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
11. Floyd, D. L., Prentice-Dunn, S., Rogers, R. W. (2000). A meta-analysis of research on protection motivation theory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 407-29.
12. Greening, L., and Chandler, C. C. (1997). Why it can't happen to me: The base rate matters, but overestimating skill leads to underestimating risk. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 760-80.
13. Harrison, J. A., Mullen, P. D., and Green, L. W. (1992). A meta-analysis of studies of the health belief model with adults. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 7, 107-16.
14. Herzog, T. A., Abrams, D. B., Emmons, K. M., Linnan, L. A., and Shadel, W. G. (1999). Do processes of change predict smoking stage movements? A prospective analysis of the transtheoretical model. Health Psychology, 18, 369-75.
15. Hochbaum, G. M. (1958). Public participation in medical screening programs: A sociopsychological study. US Public Health Service Publication No. 572. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
16. Janz, N. K., and Becker, M. H. (1984). The Health Belief Model: A decade later. Health Education Quarterly, 11, 1-47.
17. Johnson, E. J., and Tversky, A. (1983). Affect, generalization, and the perception of risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 454, 20-31.
18. Kirscht, J. P. (1988). The health belief model and predictions of health actions. In D. S. Gochman (Ed.), Health Behavior: Emerging Research Perspectives (pp. 27-41). New York: Plenum Press.
19. Klohn, L. S., and Rogers, R. W. (1991). Dimensions of the severity of a health threat: the persuasive effects of visibility, time of onset, and rate of onset on young women's intentions to prevent osteoporosis. Health Psychology, 10, 323-9.
20. Lachendro, E., and Weinstein, N. D. (1982). Egocentrism as a source of unrealistic optimism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 195-200.
21. Levi, A. S., and Pryor, J. B. (1987). Use of the availability heuristic in probability estimates of future events: The effects of imagining outcomes versus imagining reasons. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 40, 219-34.
22. Lipkus, I. M., Biradavolu, M., Fenn, K., Keller, P., and Rimer, B. K. (2001). Informing women about their breast cancer risks: Truth and consequences. Health Communication, 13, 205-26.
23. Mason, T. J., McKay, F. W., Hoover, R., Blot, W. J., and Fraumeni, Jr., J. F. (1975). Atlas of Cancer Mortality in US Counties: 1950-1969. US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, HEW Publication No. NIH 75-780. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
24. McCaul, K. D., Schroeder, D. M., and Reid, P. A. (1996). Breast cancer worry and screening: Some prospective data. Health Psychology, 15, 430-3.
25. Perloff, L. S., and Fetzer, B. K. (1986). Self-other judgments and perceived vulnerability to victimization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 502-11.
26. Prentice-Dunn, S., and Rogers, R. W. (1986). Protection motivation theory and preventive health: Beyond the Health Belief Model. Health Education Research, 1, 153-61.
27. Prochaska, J. O., and DiClemente, C. C. (1983). Sages and processes of self-change in smoking: Toward an integrative model of change. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 51, 390-5.
28. Quadrel, M. J., and Fischhoff, B. (1993). Adolescent (in)vulnerability. American Psychologist, 48, 102-17.
29. Quinlan, K. B., and McCaul, K. D. (2000). Matched and mismatched interventions with young adult smokers: Testing a stage theory. Health Psychology, 19, 165-71.
30. Rogers, R. W. (1983). Cognitive and physiological processes in fear appeals and attitude change. In J. T. Cacioppo and R. E. Petty (Eds.), Social Psychophysiology (pp. 153-76). New York: Guilford Press.
31. Ronis, D. L. (1992). Conditional health threats: Health beliefs, decisions, and behaviors among adults. Health Psychology, 11, 127-34.
32. Rosenstock, I. M. (1974). The health belief model: Origins and correlates. Health Education Monographs, 2, 336-53.
33. Rothman, A. J., Klein, W. M., and Weinstein, N. D. (1996). Absolute and relative biases in estimations of personal risk. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 1213-36.
34. Sandman, P. M., Klotz, M. L., and Weinstein, N. D. (1987). Public response to the risk from geological radon. Journal of Communication, 37(3), 93-108.
35. Sandman, P. M., and Weinstein, N. D. (1993). Predictors of home radon testing and implications for testing promotion programs. Health Education Quarterly, 20, 1-17.
36. Schwarzer, R. (1992). Self-efficacy in the adoption and maintenance of health behaviors: Theoretical approaches and a new model. In R. Schwarzer (Ed.), Self-efficacy: Thought Control of Action (pp. 217-42). Washington, DC: Hemisphere.
37. Sherman, S. J., Skov, R. B., Hervitz, E. F., and Stock, C. B. (1981). The effects of explaining hypothetical future events: From possibility to probability to actuality and beyond. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 17, 142-58.
38. Simon, P. M., Morse, E. V., Balson, P. M., Osofsky, H. J., and Gaumer, H. R. (1993). Barriers to human immunodeficiency virus related risk among male street prostitutes. Health Education Quarterly, 20, 261-73.
39. Slovic, P. (1987). Perception of risk. Science, 236, 280-5.
40. Strecher, V. J., Kreuter, M. W., and Kobrin, S. C. (1995). Do cigarette smokers have unrealistic perceptions of their heart attack, cancer, and stroke risks? Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 18, 45-54.
41. Sutton, S. R. (1982). Fear arousing communications: A critical examination of theory and research. In J. R. Eiser (Ed.), Social Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (pp. 303-38). New York: Wiley.
42. Sutton, S. R. (2000). A critical review of the transtheoretical model applied to smoking cessation. In P. Norman, C. Abraham, and M. Conner (Eds.), Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour: From Health Beliefs to Self-regulation (pp. 207-25). Reading, UK: Harwood Academic Press.
43. Weinstein, N. D. (1978). Cognitive processes and information seeking concerning an environmental health threat. Journal of Human Stress, 4, 32-41.
44. Weinstein, N. D. (1979). Seeking reassuring or threatening information about environmental cancer. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2, 125-39.
45. Weinstein, N. D. (1980). Unrealistic optimism about future life events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 806-20.
46. Weinstein, N. D. (1982). Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 5, 441-60.
47. Weinstein, N. D. (1983). Reducing unrealistic optimism about illness susceptibility. Health Psychology, 2, 11-20.
48. Weinstein, N. D. (1984). Why it won't happen to me: Perceptions of risk factors and illness susceptibility. Health Psychology, 3, 431-57.
49. Weinstein, N. D. (1987). Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: Conclusions from a community-wide sample. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 10(5), 481-500.
50. Weinstein, N. D. (1988). The precaution adoption process. Health Psychology, 7(4), 355-86.
51. Weinstein, N. D. (1989). Optimistic biases about personal risks. Science, 246, 1232-3.
52. Weinstein, N. D. (1993). Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior. Health Psychology, 12, 324-33.
53. Weinstein, N. D. (1998a). Accuracy of smokers' risk perceptions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 135-40.
54. Weinstein, N. D. (1998b). References on perceived vulnerability and optimistic biases about risk or future life events. Unpublished bibliography, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
55. Weinstein, N. D. (1999). What does it mean to understand a risk? Evaluating risk comprehension. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Monograph 25, 15-20.
56. Weinstein, N. D., Atwood, K., Puleo, E., Fletcher, R., Colditz, G., and Emmons, K. M. (2001). Colon cancer: Risk perceptions and risk communication. Unpublished paper. Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
57. Weinstein, N. D., and Klein, W. M. (1995). Resistance of personal risk perceptions to debiasing interventions. Health Psychology, 14, 132-40.
58. Weinstein, N. D., and Klein, W. M. (1996). Unrealistic optimism: Present and future. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15, 1-8.
59. Weinstein, N. D., Klotz, M. L., and Sandman, P. M. (1988). Optimistic biases in public perceptions of the risk from radon. American Journal of Public Health, 78, 796-800.
60. Weinstein, N. D., and Lyon, J. E. (1999). Mindset, optimistic bias, and preventive behavior. British Journal of Health Psychology, 4, 289-300.
61. Weinstein, N. D., Lyon, J. E., Rothman, A. J., and Cuite, C. L. (2000a). Preoccupation and affect as predictors of self-protective behavior following natural disaster. British Journal of Health Psychology, 5, 351-63.
62. Weinstein, N. D., Lyon, J. E., Rothman, A. J., and Cuite, C. L. (2000b). Changes in perceived vulnerability following natural disaster. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 19, 372-95.
63. Weinstein, N. D., Lyon, J. E., Sandman, P. M., and Cuite, C. L. (1998a). Experimental evidence for stages of precaution adoption. Health Psychology, 17, 445-53.
64. Weinstein, N. D., and Nicolich, M. (1993). Correct and incorrect interpretations of correlations between risk perceptions and risk behaviors. Health Psychology, 12, 235-45.
65. Weinstein, N. D., Rothman, A. J., and Nicolich, M. (1998b). Using correlations to study relationships between risk perceptions and preventive behavior. Psychology and Health, 13, 479-501.
66. Weinstein, N. D., Rothman, A., and Sutton, S. (1998c). Stage theories of health behavior. Health Psychology, 17, 290-9.
67. Weinstein, N. D., and Sandman, P. M. (1992). A model of the precaution adoption process: Evidence from home radon testing. Health Psychology, 11, 170-80.
68. Weinstein, N. D., Sandman, P. M., and Klotz, M. L. (1987). Public response to the risk from radon, 1986. Report to the Division of Environmental Quality, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ.
69. Weinstein, N. D., Sandman, P. M., and Roberts, N. E. (1989). Public response to the risk from radon, 1988-89. Report to the Division of Environmental Quality, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ.
70. Weinstein, N. D., Sandman, P. M., and Roberts, N. E. (1990). Determinants of selfprotective behavior: Home radon testing. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 783-801.
71. Weinstein, N. D., Sandman, P. M., and Roberts, N. E. (1991). Perceived susceptibility and self-protective behavior: A field experiment to encourage home radon testing. Health Psychology, 10, 25-33.