Previous studies examining decision making in the context of genetic testing for BRCA1/2 gene mutations have been limited in their reliance on cross-sectional designs, lack of theoretical guidance, and focus on measures of intention rather than actual behavior. Informed by the Health Belief Model and other theories of self-regulation, the present study set out to examine the role of cognitive a...

BACKGROUND Little research has been performed regarding the psychological consequences of knowing that one is at an increased risk for venous thrombosis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore attitudes toward genetic testing for protein C deficiency. METHODS Questionnaires about genetic testing attitudes, dispositional anxiety, risk perception, and thrombosis-related worry were co...

Background. Normative feedback (NF), or receiving information about one's drinking compared to peer drinking norms, is one of the most widely used brief interventions for prevention and intervention for hazardous alcohol use. NF has demonstrated predominantly small but significant effect sizes for intention to change and other drinking related outcomes. Identifying mechanisms of action may impr...

Family caregivers play a critical role in caring for children living with HIV, however, there is little knowledge about their experiences. The aim of this study was to illuminate the family caregivers' lived experiences of caring for a child when he or she has been diagnosed with HIV and enrolled to antiretroviral treatment. Qualitative interviews with 21 family caregivers of 21 children diagno...

DEFLATION IS BACK. In the six months from October 1998 to March 1999, some 438 articles about deflation appeared in major U.S. newspapers, compared with only 36 in the first half of 1997 and 10 in the first half of 1990. For sixty years, ever since the middle years of the Great Depression, deflation was a nonissue. Next to no one worried about it. Next to no one viewed a general decline in the ...

Consensus messaging aims to increase climate change awareness by communicating the scientific consensus on anthropogenic change. According gateway belief model, messages improve estimation of consensus, which then causes subsequent changes in personal attitudes about Most studies investigating this communication strategy refer US-American samples. Therefore, present study replicated existing re...

Objective: This study evaluated the efficacy of a spiritually integrated treatment (SIT) for subclinical anxiety in the Jewish community. Method: One hundred and twenty-five self-reported religious Jewish individuals with elevated levels of stress and worry received SIT (n=36), progressive muscle relaxation (PMR, n=42), or a waitlist control condition (WLC, n=47). SIT and PMR participants acces...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the efficacy of a spiritually integrated treatment (SIT) for subclinical anxiety in the Jewish community. METHOD One hundred and twenty-five self-reported religious Jewish individuals with elevated levels of stress and worry received SIT (n=36), progressive muscle relaxation (PMR, n=42), or a waitlist control condition (WLC, n=47). SIT and PMR participants acces...

Sometimes a Minor Event Can Lead an Otherwise Normal Person To Commit Suicide This belief may be stated by friends and/or relatives of the suicide who may worry that something they said or did pushed the suicide "over the edge", and in sensational news reports of suicide (e.g., rock lyrics, role-playing games such as Dungeons and DragonsTM). This view is not supported by research results. Gener...

The paradox of ionising radiation is that we probably know more about it than about any other environmental agent yet are still uncertain of the total extent of its risks at low levelsindeed, out of the welter of data support can easily be found for opposing points of view. The main worry stems from the belief that for most long-term effects there is no threshold below which radiation is comple...