Banerjee Smita C, Hay Jennifer L, Greene Kathryn
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Am J Health Behav. 2013 Sep;37(5):577-86. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.37.5.1.
To examine construct and predictive utility of an adapted cognitive rationalization scale for tanning-bed use.
Current/former tanning-bedusing undergraduate students (N = 216; 87.6% females; 78.4% white) at a large northeastern university participated in a survey. A cognitive rationalization for tanning-bed use scale was adapted. Standardized self-report measures of past tanning-bed use, advantages of tanning, perceived vulnerability to photoaging, tanning-bed use dependence, and tanning-bed use intention were also administered.
The cognitive rationalization scale exhibited strong construct and predictive validity. Current tanners and tanning-bed-use-dependent participants endorsed rationalizations more strongly than did former tanners and not-tanning-bed-use-dependent participants respectively.
Findings indicate that cognitive rationalizations help explain discrepancy between inconsistent cognitions.
检验一种适用于美黑床使用的认知合理化量表的结构效度和预测效用。
美国东北部一所大型大学的当前/曾经使用美黑床的本科生（N = 216；87.6%为女性；78.4%为白人）参与了一项调查。改编了一个用于美黑床使用的认知合理化量表。还采用了标准化的自我报告测量方法，测量过去使用美黑床的情况、美黑的益处、感知到的光老化易感性、美黑床使用依赖性和美黑床使用意图。
认知合理化量表表现出很强的结构效度和预测效度。当前的美黑者和美黑床使用依赖者分别比曾经的美黑者和非美黑床使用依赖者更强烈地认可这些合理化观点。
研究结果表明，认知合理化有助于解释不一致认知之间的差异。
