The relative persuasiveness of gain-framed and loss-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behaviors: a meta-analytic review - PubMed (original) (raw)
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The relative persuasiveness of gain-framed and loss-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behaviors: a meta-analytic review
Daniel J O'Keefe et al. J Health Commun. 2007 Oct-Nov.
Abstract
A meta-analytic review of 93 studies (N = 21,656) finds that in disease prevention messages, gain-framed appeals, which emphasize the advantages of compliance with the communicator's recommendation, are statistically significantly more persuasive than loss-framed appeals, which emphasize the disadvantages of noncompliance. This difference is quite small (corresponding to r = .03), however, and appears attributable to a relatively large (and statistically significant) effect for messages advocating dental hygiene behaviors. Despite very good statistical power, the analysis finds no statistically significant differences in persuasiveness between gain- and loss-framed messages concerning other preventive actions such as safer-sex behaviors, skin cancer prevention behaviors, or diet and nutrition behaviors.
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- The effectiveness of gain-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behavior: is all hope lost?
Latimer AE, Salovey P, Rothman AJ. Latimer AE, et al. J Health Commun. 2007 Oct-Nov;12(7):645-9. doi: 10.1080/10810730701619695. J Health Commun. 2007. PMID: 17934941
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