The Impact of Vulnerability to and Severity of a Health Risk on Processing and Acceptance of Fear-Arousing Communications: A Meta-Analysis

By Natascha de Hoog, Wolfgang Stroebe, J. D. de Wit. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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The processing of fear‐arousing communications: How biased processing leads to persuasion (2008, background): “This notion has been confirmed in several meta‐analyses on fear appeals which have shown that high fear messages induce more attitude, intention, and behavior change than low fear messages (Boster & Mongeau, 1984 ; De Hoog, Stroebe, & de Wit, 2007 ; Witte & Allen, 2000 ).”
Defensive reactions to health-promoting information: an overview and implications for future research (2013, result): “De Hoog et al. (2007) found further support for this line of thinking in a meta-analysis, finding that vulnerability had medium-sized effects on positive thoughts about action recommendations and concluding that ‘defence-motivated individuals will be motivated to perceive any recommendation as…”
Appealing to fear: A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeal Effectiveness and Theories (2015, methodology): “…of fear appeals (e.g., Hovland et al., 1953), the health belief model (Rosenstock , 1966; Becker, 1974; Becker et al., 1977, 1978; Rosenstock, 1974), the parallel process model (Leventhal, 1970), the extended parallel process model (Witte, 1992, 1998), and the stage model (de Hoog et al., 2007).”
Persuasive communication and proenvironmental behaviours: How message tailoring and message framing can improve the integration of behaviours through self-determined motivation. (2008, background): “Fear appeals should lead people to be positively biased in their consideration of potential solutions to en environmental problem (Das, de Wit, & Stroebe, 2003; de Hoog et al., 2007).”
An Enhanced Fear Appeal Rhetorical Framework: Leveraging Threats to the Human Asset Through Sanctioning Rhetoric (2015, result): “The stage model of fear-arousing communications processing by de Hoog et al. (2007) represents the most recent behavioral model, although it is not as entrenched in the literature as some earlier models are.”
Threatening communication: a critical re-analysis and a revised meta-analytic test of fear appeal theory (2013, methodology): “Because the most recent meta-analysis was very recent (de Hoog et al., 2007), we limited ourselves to identifying additional articles using queries in bibliographic databases (see below).”
Fear appeals and persuasion: A review and update of the Extended Parallel Process Model. (2011, background): “De Hoog, Stroebe, and Wit (2007) conducted a meta-analysis to examine whether these assumptions held up empirically.”