Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication: A Test and Extension of the Intertwined Model

By Stephen A. Rains, M. Turner. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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A 50-Year Review of Psychological Reactance Theory: Do Not Read This Article (2017, result): “Brehm (1966) postulated a direct relationship between the severity of a threat and the amount of reactance aroused—more severe threats lead to greater intense social influence attempts instigated greater oppositional behavior than less intense attempts (for similar results see Rains & Turner, 2007).”
Explaining the Effects of Narrative in an Entertainment Television Program: Overcoming Resistance to Persuasion (2010, background): “Because recent work has demonstrated that reactance is made up of cognitive and affective elements (Dillard & Shen, 2005; Quick & Stephenson, 2007; Rains & Turner, 2007), nine items assessed both of these components.”
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration (2008, background): “…what types of language trigger state reactance, the operationalization of state reactance, and the outcomes associated with this aversive state (Dillard & Shen, 2005; Miller, Lane, Deatrick, Young, & Potts, 2007; Quick & Considine, in press; Quick & Stephenson, 2007a, 2007b; Rains & Turner, 2007).”
Psychological Reactance From Reading Basic Facts on Climate Change: The Role of Prior Views and Political Identification (2018, background): “Similarly, research has shown that anti-littering (Rains & Turner, 2007), anti-smoking (Shoham, Trost, & Rohrbaugh, 2004; Wolburg, 2006) and safe-driving (Moyer-Gusé et al., 2012) messages elicit reactance, resulting in people being less likely to engage in these suggested behaviors.”
Reactance, autonomy and paths to persuasion: Examining perceptions of threats to freedom and informational value (2009, background): “Structural equation modelling showed that this reactance was subsequently associated with changes in attitude and intention, with reactance leading to less positive attitudes and to weaker intentions to engage in the recommended health behavior (see also Rains and Turner 2007 ).”
Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication: A Review of the Literature (2019, methodology): “The ineffectiveness of freedomthreatening language use in persuasive messages has been well-documented across a variety of health contexts including alcohol consumption (Rains and Turner, 2007), drug use (Miller et al.”