Chapman G B, Coups E J
Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8020, USA.
Med Decis Making. 1999 Jul-Sep;19(3):307-14. doi: 10.1177/0272989X9901900309.
Many preventive health behaviors involve immediate costs and delayed benefits. Time preference is the extent to which decision makers value future outcomes relative to immediate ones. Consequently, people with future-oriented time preferences should be more likely to adopt preventive measures. The relationship between time preferences and acceptance of a free influenza vaccination was examined.
The participants were 412 corporate employees who were offered free influenza vaccinations at their workplace.
Participants' time preferences were measured in each of two domains: money and health. They also reported on whether they had accepted the influenza vaccination and their beliefs and attitudes about the vaccine.
There was a small (OR = 2.38) relationship of vaccination acceptance to monetary time preferences but not to the health time-preference measures. Other variables, such as perceived effectiveness of the vaccine, were more predictive.
This study provides some evidence of a small relationship between time preferences and preventive health behavior.
许多预防性健康行为涉及即时成本和延迟收益。时间偏好是指决策者相对于即时结果对未来结果的重视程度。因此，具有面向未来时间偏好的人应该更有可能采取预防措施。本研究考察了时间偏好与免费流感疫苗接种接受度之间的关系。
参与者为412名企业员工，他们在工作场所可获得免费流感疫苗接种。
在金钱和健康这两个领域分别测量参与者的时间偏好。他们还报告了自己是否接受了流感疫苗接种以及对疫苗的信念和态度。
疫苗接种接受度与金钱时间偏好之间存在较小的关联（比值比=2.38），但与健康时间偏好测量指标无关。其他变量，如对疫苗有效性的认知，更具预测性。
本研究提供了一些证据，表明时间偏好与预防性健康行为之间存在较小的关联。
