ArticleJournal of health psychology2020
Causes and consequences of uncertainty about illness risk perceptions.
Article in Journal of health psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Examining strategies for addressing high levels of 'I don't know' responding to risk perception questions for colorectal cancer and diabetes: an experimental investigation.Psychology & health · 2021Trial
- Associations between uncertainty in illness and cardiac rehabilitation adherence in patients with CHD: a cross-sectional chain mediation and latent profile analysis of cardiac self-efficacy and fear of activity.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Understanding the interplay between epidemiological and social cognitve drivers of behaviour change during the Covid-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Getting Cancer Is "Just Bad Luck": Exploring Bereaved Emerging and Young Adults' Cancer Risk Uncertainty After Caring for a Parent With Advanced Cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2025Article
- Compliance with social norms in the face of risks: Delineating the roles of uncertainty about risk perceptions versus risk perceptions.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
- Influence of Illness Uncertainty on Health Behavior in Individuals with Coronary Artery Disease: A Path Analysis.Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2024Article
- The Impact of Shared Decision-Making on the Quality of Decision Making in Aortic Dissection: A before-and-after Comparison Study.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Dismissing "Don't Know" Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Associations between compliance with covid-19 public health recommendations and perceived contagion in others: a self-report study in Swedish university students.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Factors Associated with Perceived Susceptibility to COVID-19 Among Urban and Rural Adults in Alabama.Journal of community health · 2021Article
- Priority of Risk (But Not Perceived Magnitude of Risk) Predicts Improved Sun-Protection Behavior Following Genetic Counseling for Familial Melanoma.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Willingness of Latinx and African Americans to Participate in Nontherapeutic Trials: It Depends on Who Runs the Research.Ethnicity & disease · 2021Article
- Cultural Worldviews and Perceived Risk of Colon Cancer and Diabetes.Health, risk & society · 2020Article
- Specifying Future Behavior When Assessing Risk Perceptions: Implications for Measurement and Theory.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2019Article
- Low Health Literacy and Health Information Avoidance but Not Satisficing Help Explain "Don't Know" Responses to Questions Assessing Perceived Risk.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2018Article
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Abstract
We identified determinants of uncertainty about perceived risk judgments and demonstrated that uncertainty is associated with lower engagement in risk-reducing behavior. We found that people likely have metacognitive awareness of when their judgments are overly pessimistic, resulting in uncertainty and that question context (more constraints) and people's time orientation (future orientation) are associated with lower uncertainty. Uncertainty about conditioned risk judgments was associated with lower engagement in exercising and eating a healthy diet in order to reduce risk for heart disease. As a potential determinant of behavior, uncertainty about risk judgments merits further consideration for integration into theories of health behavior.
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