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Article: The Effects of Efficacy Framing in News Information and Health Anxiety on Coronavirus-Disease-2019-Related Cognitive Outcomes and Interpretation Bias

TitleThe Effects of Efficacy Framing in News Information and Health Anxiety on Coronavirus-Disease-2019-Related Cognitive Outcomes and Interpretation Bias
Authors
KeywordsCoronavirus
Framing effects
Health anxiety
News media
Issue Date7-Apr-2022
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association
Citation
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2022, v. 151, n. 11, p. 2943-2956 How to Cite?
AbstractWithin the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, disease-related information is omnipresent in the media, whereas information about how to manage the pandemic is less often covered. Under the context where threat is present, this study investigated whether and how the strength of efficacy framing (i.e., the perspective adopted by a communicating text that emphasizes one’s possibilities to cope with an external threat) of COVID-19-related news, as well as its interaction with trait health anxiety under the COVID-19 context, related to people’s COVID-19-related cognitive outcomes. One hundred and ninety-three participants reported demographics, trait health anxiety, and COVID-19-related behaviors (e.g., precautionary measures, information-seeking behaviors). They then either read high-efficacy (n = 112; e.g., cure rate) or low-efficacy (n = 81; e.g., mortality rate) information about COVID-19. Afterward, their tendency to interpret illness and COVID-19-related information more negatively, and other COVID-19-related cognitions (e.g., risk perception, behavioral change intentions) were assessed. High-efficacy framing resulted in lower-risk perception and marginally weaker COVID-19-related interpretation bias, compared with low-efficacy framing. There was some evidence of an interaction with health anxiety such that high-efficacy framing, compared with low-efficacy framing, was associated with greater intention to adopt protective behaviors, particularly for individuals with higher levels of health anxiety. Media framing of COVID-19 information affects how people respond to the pandemic; a high-efficacy communication style might more effectively encourage healthy behaviors than a low-efficacy narrative, particularly for people who are already anxious about their health
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/338711
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dc.contributor.authorTao, TJ-
dc.contributor.authorChan, FHF-
dc.contributor.authorJin, J-
dc.contributor.authorBarry, TJ-
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-11T10:30:58Z-
dc.date.available2024-03-11T10:30:58Z-
dc.date.issued2022-04-07-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2022, v. 151, n. 11, p. 2943-2956-
dc.identifier.issn0096-3445-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/338711-
dc.description.abstractWithin the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, disease-related information is omnipresent in the media, whereas information about how to manage the pandemic is less often covered. Under the context where threat is present, this study investigated whether and how the strength of efficacy framing (i.e., the perspective adopted by a communicating text that emphasizes one’s possibilities to cope with an external threat) of COVID-19-related news, as well as its interaction with trait health anxiety under the COVID-19 context, related to people’s COVID-19-related cognitive outcomes. One hundred and ninety-three participants reported demographics, trait health anxiety, and COVID-19-related behaviors (e.g., precautionary measures, information-seeking behaviors). They then either read high-efficacy (n = 112; e.g., cure rate) or low-efficacy (n = 81; e.g., mortality rate) information about COVID-19. Afterward, their tendency to interpret illness and COVID-19-related information more negatively, and other COVID-19-related cognitions (e.g., risk perception, behavioral change intentions) were assessed. High-efficacy framing resulted in lower-risk perception and marginally weaker COVID-19-related interpretation bias, compared with low-efficacy framing. There was some evidence of an interaction with health anxiety such that high-efficacy framing, compared with low-efficacy framing, was associated with greater intention to adopt protective behaviors, particularly for individuals with higher levels of health anxiety. Media framing of COVID-19 information affects how people respond to the pandemic; a high-efficacy communication style might more effectively encourage healthy behaviors than a low-efficacy narrative, particularly for people who are already anxious about their health-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association-
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Experimental Psychology: General-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectCoronavirus-
dc.subjectFraming effects-
dc.subjectHealth anxiety-
dc.subjectNews media-
dc.titleThe Effects of Efficacy Framing in News Information and Health Anxiety on Coronavirus-Disease-2019-Related Cognitive Outcomes and Interpretation Bias-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/xge0001223-
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dc.identifier.volume151-
dc.identifier.issue11-
dc.identifier.spage2943-
dc.identifier.epage2956-
dc.identifier.eissn1939-2222-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000779099500001-
dc.identifier.issnl0096-3445-

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