ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2015
Affective associations and cognitive beliefs relate to individuals' decisions to perform testicular or breast self-exams.
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- Psychosocial Predictors of Colorectal Cancer Screening Intention: An Experiment on the Invitation Letter.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Guidelines for assessment of affect-related constructs.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Awareness and Performance of Testicular Self-Examinations: An Analysis of Social and Cultural Barriers to Cancer Screenings in a US Orthodox Jewish Community.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- [Testicular and breast self-examination-a retrospective cohort study of medical students].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2021Article
- The influence of affect on HPV vaccine decision making in an HPV vaccine naïve college student population.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
- Affective components of perceived risk mediate the relation between cognitively-based perceived risk and colonoscopy screening.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- The Role of Attitudes, Affect, and Income in Predicting COVID-19 Behavioral Intentions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- "I had the feeling that I was trapped": a bedside qualitative study of cognitive and affective attitudes toward noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure.Annals of intensive care · 2019Article
- Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health-promoting and health risk behavioral intentions.Journal of applied social psychology · 2019Article
- Designing a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a community-based narrative intervention for improving colorectal cancer screening for African Americans.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018Article
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Abstract
Affective associations with behavioral practices play an important role in individuals' uptake of a variety of health behaviors. Most work has looked at individual behavioral practices with a direct impact on health; because screening behaviors are conceptually distinct from such behaviors, it is important to examine the interplay of affect and cognition in screening decision making. The current research explored affective and cognitive predictors of testicular and breast self-examination behavior. Young adult participants (N = 184) reported cognitive beliefs and affective associations with testicular self-exam behavior (male participants) and breast self-exam behavior (female participants) and reported their own current screening behavior. In univariable models, affective associations were related to screening behavior for both testicular self-exams and breast self-exams. When examining affective associations and cognitive beliefs as simultaneous predictors, affective associations (but not cognitive beliefs) predicted testicular self-exams, and neither affective associations nor cognitive beliefs were uniquely related to breast self-exams. Moreover, for testicular self-exams, affective associations mediated the relation between cognitive beliefs and screening behavior; no mediation was present for breast self-exam behavior. These findings suggest three potential outcomes: first, that greater consideration of affective associations in testicular self-exam screening decisions may be warranted; second, that breast and testicular self-exams may have different antecedents; and third, that incorporation of affective factors in intervention design might have merit for increasing engagement in some cancer screening behaviors.
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