The Role of Resources and Message Exposure on Health-Related Outcomes
Author
Lowery, Megan R.
Abstract
The current study involved analysis of the relationships between frequency of health message exposure, perceived resource availability, health-related self-efficacy, health-related anxiety, negative rumination, and positive rumination. Drawing from the Conservation of Resources theory, health messages were conceptualized as a resource contributing to health-related outcomes for individuals. A survey containing seven self-report measures of the study variables was provided to a sample of participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Although findings did not support the proposed moderating effect of perceived resource availability on the relationship between health message exposure and health-related outcomes, results suggest that perceived resource availability and frequency of health message exposure may additively contribute to improving an individual's health-related outcomes. Practical and theoretical implications related to the study findings and avenues for future research were also explored.
Date
2016-05-03
Citation:
APA:
Lowery, Megan R..
(May 2016).
The Role of Resources and Message Exposure on Health-Related Outcomes
(Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5314.)
MLA:
Lowery, Megan R..
The Role of Resources and Message Exposure on Health-Related Outcomes.
Master's Thesis. East Carolina University,
May 2016. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5314.
May 08, 2024.
Chicago:
Lowery, Megan R.,
“The Role of Resources and Message Exposure on Health-Related Outcomes”
(Master's Thesis., East Carolina University,
May 2016).
AMA:
Lowery, Megan R..
The Role of Resources and Message Exposure on Health-Related Outcomes
[Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
May 2016.
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Publisher
East Carolina University