Ramondt Steven, Ramírez A Susana
Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.
Public Health, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.
Ann Int Commun Assoc. 2017;41(3-4):298-320. doi: 10.1080/23808985.2017.1387502. Epub 2017 Oct 19.
Fatalistic attitudes have a negative impact on a broad variety of health behaviors and behavioral determinants of health. A growing body of research has documented an association between media exposure and fatalism; however, scholarship has not been able to ascertain the causal direction. This review synthesizes the current state of the literature. A major finding is that most studies purporting to assess the relationship between media exposure and fatalism use conflated measures of fatalism. Among those that use an appropriate measure, there is some evidence that increased exposure to media increases fatalism. Although there is a substantive theoretical rationale for such effects, more research is needed to make a definitive claim and to explain the mechanism for such effects.
宿命论态度对广泛的健康行为和健康行为决定因素产生负面影响。越来越多的研究记录了媒体接触与宿命论之间的关联；然而，学术研究尚未能够确定因果方向。本综述综合了当前的文献状况。一个主要发现是，大多数声称评估媒体接触与宿命论之间关系的研究使用了混淆的宿命论测量方法。在那些使用适当测量方法的研究中，有一些证据表明，媒体接触增加会导致宿命论增加。尽管这种影响有实质性的理论依据，但仍需要更多研究来做出明确的论断并解释这种影响的机制。
