Mikels Joseph A, Shuster Michael M, Thai Sydney T, Smith-Ray Renae, Waugh Christian E, Roth Kayla, Keilly Alexis, Stine-Morrow Elizabeth A L
Department of Psychology, DePaul University.
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Psychol Aging. 2016 Jun;31(4):409-14. doi: 10.1037/pag0000040.
Age differences in responses to framed health messages-which can influence judgments and decisions-are critical to understand yet relatively unexplored. Age-related emotional shifts toward positivity would be expected to differentially impact the affective responses of older and younger adults to framed messages. In this study, we measured the subjective and physiological affective responses of older and younger adults to gain- and loss-framed exercise promotion messages. Relative to older adults, younger adults exhibited greater negative reactivity to loss-framed health messages. These results suggest that health message framing does matter, but it depends on the age of the message recipient. (PsycINFO Database Record
对框架式健康信息的反应存在年龄差异——这会影响判断和决策——虽然至关重要,但相对而言尚未得到充分探索。与年龄相关的情绪向积极方向的转变预计会对老年人和年轻人对框架式信息的情感反应产生不同影响。在本研究中,我们测量了老年人和年轻人对收益框架和损失框架的运动促进信息的主观和生理情感反应。相对于老年人,年轻人对损失框架的健康信息表现出更大的负面反应。这些结果表明,健康信息的框架确实很重要,但这取决于信息接收者的年龄。(PsycINFO数据库记录)