National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
The University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
J Behav Med. 2021 Dec;44(6):860-866. doi: 10.1007/s10865-021-00222-0. Epub 2021 May 13.
Although romantic couple concordance has been demonstrated across a wide array of health behaviors, little research has examined dyadic concordance in health beliefs. This study examined the extent to which cohabitating romantic dyads' attitudes and beliefs coincide (i.e., dyadic concordance) in addition to how well they predict intentions to learn genomic sequencing results. The actor-partner interdependence model was applied to cross-sectional data from 81 dyads in an exome sequencing study who were surveyed about their risk perceptions, worry, information avoidance, attitudes, and intentions toward learning carrier results. Information avoidance tendencies were positively correlated between partners, but there was low concordance on other beliefs. Individuals' attitudes and information avoidance predicted their own intentions to learn results. Additionally, partners' information avoidance tendencies predicted their partner's intentions to learn results. Future research should explore mechanisms through which one's partner's information avoidance may affect one's own intentions and behaviors.
尽管在广泛的健康行为中已经证明了浪漫伴侣的一致性，但很少有研究检查健康信念中的对偶一致性。本研究考察了同居浪漫伴侣的态度和信念在多大程度上一致（即对偶一致性），以及它们在多大程度上可以预测学习基因组测序结果的意图。在一项外显子组测序研究中，应用演员-伙伴相互依存模型对 81 对夫妇的横断面数据进行了分析，这些夫妇接受了关于风险感知、担忧、信息回避、态度和学习携带者结果的意图的调查。信息回避倾向在伴侣之间呈正相关，但在其他信念上一致性较低。个体的态度和信息回避预测了他们自己学习结果的意图。此外，伴侣的信息回避倾向预测了他们伴侣学习结果的意图。未来的研究应该探讨一个人的伴侣的信息回避如何影响自己的意图和行为的机制。
