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In: Social history of medicine, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 173-174
ISSN: 1477-4666
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In: Social history of medicine, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 173-174
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Social history of medicine, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 449-451
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Child abuse & neglect: the international journal ; official journal of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Band 17, Heft 6, S. 831-841
ISSN: 1873-7757
In: Social history of medicine, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 152-153
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Social history of medicine, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 348-349
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Rural Society, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 10-12
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Environment and behavior: eb ; publ. in coop. with the Environmental Design Research Association, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 577-585
ISSN: 1552-390X
This article reports on the relationship between outcome knowledge regarding an environmental event and self-reported fear of future illness. A sample of 95 subjects in three conditions showed that outcome knowledge increases post event likelihood estimations, thus indicating a hindsight bias. Subjects' perceived likelihood of increases in disease rate is shown to substantially predict subjects' level of fear of future illness for both cancer and no cancer disease. Demographic variables of gender, political ideology, and attitude toward environmental activism were shown to have mixed results in predicting fear of future illness. Positive attitude toward environmental activism modesty predicted fear of cancer but not fear of noncancer disease. Political ideology failed to significantly predict fear of future illness, although it showed a trend toward significance for predicting fear of cancer. Gender significantly predicted fear of noncancer disease but not fear of cancer, with females indicating more fear than males. The implications of the accuracy of outcome information following ambiguous and uncertain events on the genesis and exacerbation of fear of future illness is discussed.