Milfont Taciano L, Vilar Roosevelt, Araujo Rafaella C R, Stanley Robert
Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research and School of Psychology, Victoria University of WellingtonWellington, New Zealand.
School of Psychology, Massey UniversityAuckland, New Zealand.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jul 25;8:1202. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01202. eCollection 2017.
A study with United States undergraduate students showed individuals high in concern with future consequences engage in exercise and healthy eating because they adopt a promotion orientation, which represents the extent to which individuals are inclined to pursue positive gains. The present article reports a cross-cultural replication of the mediation findings with undergraduate samples from Brazil and New Zealand. Promotion orientation mediated the association between concern with future consequences and exercise attitudes in both countries, but the associations for healthy eating were not replicated-which could be explained by distinct obesity prevalence and eating habits in these socio-cultural contexts. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the findings for promoting health behavior.
一项针对美国本科生的研究表明，那些高度关注未来后果的人会进行锻炼并保持健康饮食，因为他们采取了促进导向，这代表了个体追求积极收益的倾向程度。本文报告了一项跨文化重复研究，研究对象是来自巴西和新西兰的本科生样本，以验证上述中介效应的研究结果。在这两个国家，促进导向都在对未来后果的关注与锻炼态度之间起到了中介作用，但健康饮食方面的关联并未得到重复验证——这可能是由这些社会文化背景下不同的肥胖患病率和饮食习惯所导致的。我们讨论了这些研究结果对于促进健康行为的理论和实践意义。
