Meyer B J, Russo C, Talbot A
Department of Educational Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802-3109, USA.
Psychol Aging. 1995 Mar;10(1):84-103. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.10.1.84.
The 1st study examined the decision making and prose comprehension of 94 women interacting with an authentic, unfolding health scenario about breast cancer. The 2nd study involved questionnaire data focusing on the decisions made by 75 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Two major findings emerged from this laboratory and survey research. First, older women sought less information when making treatment decisions about breast cancer. However, the outcome of those decisions were equivalent to those of younger women. Second, older women made these decisions faster than younger women. In addition, treatment decisions were related to prose processing, the type of information underlined as important while reading as well as the type of information remembered about various treatment options.
第一项研究考察了94名女性在面对一个真实且不断展开的乳腺癌健康场景时的决策制定和散文理解能力。第二项研究涉及问卷调查数据，重点关注75名已被诊断患有乳腺癌的女性所做出的决策。这项实验室研究和调查研究得出了两个主要发现。首先，老年女性在做出乳腺癌治疗决策时寻求的信息较少。然而，这些决策的结果与年轻女性的相当。其次，老年女性做出这些决策的速度比年轻女性快。此外，治疗决策与散文处理、阅读时被视为重要而被下划线标注的信息类型以及关于各种治疗方案所记住的信息类型有关。
