ArticleCognition & emotion2015
The role of current affect, anticipated affect and spontaneous self-affirmation in decisions to receive self-threatening genetic risk information.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Do Negative Self-Evaluative Emotions Enhance Healthier Food Choices? Exploring the Moderating Role of Self-Affirmation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Future-oriented Emotions and Decisions to Receive Genomic Testing Results Among U.S. Adults of African Ancestry.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Article
- Guidelines for assessment of affect-related constructs.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Does the disclosure of medical insurance information affect patients' willingness to adopt the diagnosis related groups system.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Within- and between-person relationships between spontaneous self-affirmations, coping style, and wellbeing.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Article
- The role of future-oriented affect in engagement with genomic testing results.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Be optimistic or be cautious? Affective forecasting bias in allocation decisions and its effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Dyadic concordance and associations of beliefs with intentions to learn carrier results from genomic sequencing.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Opportunities for theory-informed decision science in cancer control.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- The More Insufficient, the More Avoidance? Cognitive and Affective Factors that Relates to Information Behaviours in Acute Risks.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Moving beyond categorization to understand affective influences on real world health decisions.Social and personality psychology compass · 2019Article
- Optimal Integration of Behavioral Medicine into Clinical Genetics and Genomics.American journal of human genetics · 2019Article
- Associations of perceived norms with intentions to learn genomic sequencing results: Roles for attitudes and ambivalence.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Interest in and reactions to genetic risk information: The role of implicit theories and self-affirmation.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
- Self-affirmation increases defensiveness toward health risk information among those experiencing negative emotions: Results from two national samples.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2017Article
- Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Consortium: Accelerating Evidence-Based Practice of Genomic Medicine.American journal of human genetics · 2016Article
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Abstract
One reason for not seeking personally threatening information may be negative current and anticipated affective responses. We examined whether current (e.g., worry) and anticipated negative affect predicted intentions to seek sequencing results in the context of an actual genomic sequencing trial (ClinSeq®; n = 545) and whether spontaneous self-affirmation mitigated any (negative) association between affect and intentions. Anticipated affective response negatively predicted intentions to obtain and share results pertaining to both medically actionable and non-actionable disease, whereas current affect was only a marginal predictor. The negative association between anticipated affect and intentions to obtain results pertaining to non-actionable disease was weaker in individuals who were higher in spontaneous self-affirmation. These results have implications for the understanding of current and anticipated affect, self-affirmation and consequential decision-making and contribute to a growing body of evidence on the role of affect in medical decisions.
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