Millar M G, Millar K
Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89254, USA.
J Behav Med. 1996 Aug;19(4):401-13. doi: 10.1007/BF01904765.
It was hypothesized that increasing levels of anxiety about health issues would make response times to disease detections longer than response times to health promotion behaviors and that this effect would reverse when anxiety about health issues was decreased. In a laboratory study 82 participants recruited from undergraduates and the general community were randomly assigned to read information designed either to increase or to decrease anxiety about health. Following the anxiety manipulation participants were required to indicate their attitude about both disease detection and health promotion behaviors and response times to both types of behavior were recorded. Finally, the participants' attitudes toward all the health behaviors were measured using 9-point scales. The results supported the hypothesis.
研究假设，对健康问题的焦虑程度增加会使疾病检测的反应时间比对健康促进行为的反应时间更长，并且当对健康问题的焦虑减少时，这种影响会逆转。在一项实验室研究中，从本科生和普通社区招募的82名参与者被随机分配阅读旨在增加或减少对健康焦虑的信息。在进行焦虑操纵后，要求参与者表明他们对疾病检测和健康促进行为的态度，并记录对这两种行为的反应时间。最后，使用9分制量表测量参与者对所有健康行为的态度。结果支持了这一假设。
