Actual and Intended Health-Related Information Seeking and Health Locus of Control
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 46 (1) , 63-69
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4601_11
Abstract
Individuals with an internal health locus of control orientation and high health value have been found to express an intent to obtain a greater mean number of health pamphlets than people with an external orientation and/or low health value. After measures of behavioral intent were obtained, college students were afforded the opportunity to actually receive health-related written information. The previously stated finding was replicated for intended but not for actual health-related information seeking. The weak relationship found between actual and intended information seeking calls into question studies using intent measures as if they were almost identical to actual behavior.Keywords
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