Physical health mindsets and information avoidance.

ABSTRACT: Health mindsets refer to beliefs about the malleability (growth mindset) versus stability (fixed mindset) of physical health and have gained traction as a predictor of health beliefs and behaviors. Across two studies, we tested whether health mindsets were associated with avoiding personalized health risk information. In Study 2, we also tested whether conceptually-related constructs of internal and chance health locus of control, health self-efficacy, fatalism, and genetic determinism were associated with information avoidance. Health mindsets were manipulated in Study 1 (college students, n = 284; 79.58% female; M_age = 19.74) and measured in Study 2 (participants recruited through MTurk, n = 735; 42.04% female; M_age = 35.78). In both studies, participants viewed a p

SUBMITTER: O'Brien AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11499518 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature