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The influence of threat perception and psychological reactance to cigarette warning labels on intention to quit smoking among smoking adolescents -with focus on industrial specialized high school students (특성화 고등학교 흡연 청소년의 담뱃갑 경고그림 위협인식, 심리적 저항이 금연의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Suhyun;Park, Jiyoung
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.283-296
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of threat perception and psychological reactance to graphic health warnings on cigarette packages on intention to quit smoking among smoking adolescents. Methods: The participants were 185 smoking adolescents attending two industrial specialized high schools, who had witnessed graphic health warnings on cigarette packages within the previous 30 days. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN Ver. 25.0. Results: The results showed that participant threat perception (𝛽=.14, p=.037) after witnessing a cigarette warning message had a positive influence on intention to quit smoking. On the other hand, psychological reactance (𝛽=-.23, p=.001) showed a negative influence on intention to quit smoking. Conclusion: When designing and developing a message for smoking adolescents, customized messages are required to reflect teenagers' characteristics and raise threat perception and lower psychological reactance. In addition, we propose a future study be conducted to determine the influences of various psychological determinants, including self-efficacy and skills, on threat perception and psychological reactance to graphic health warnings on cigarette packages among smoking adolescents.

Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict, Child abuse, and Children's Depression (자녀가 지각한 부부갈등, 자녀학대 및 자녀의 우울)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ran
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.683-690
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    • 2004
  • This study was designed to investigate the relationship among perceptions of interparental conflict, child abuse, and children's depression. The subjects for this study include 964 children who live in Gwangju city and Jeonnam area. The results of this study are as follows: First, conflict characteristics have a significant influence on child abuse. Second, conflict characteristics and child abuse significantly influence the appraisals of self-blame and threat. Third, conflict characteristics indirectly affect the children's depression. Child abuse and appraisals of self-blame and threat have a direct influence on the children's depression. Lastly, child abuse and appraisals of self-blame and threat mediate the association between interparental conflict characteristics and children's depression.

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Type of Subjective Perception on the Fear Message - Q-methodological analysis on the latest Report of Korean Peninsula Situation - (위협적 메시지에 대한 주관적 인식 유형 - 최근 한반도 정세 관련 보도의 Q방법론적 분석 -)

  • Lee, Soonmo
    • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.223-236
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    • 2013
  • Related to the situation on the Korean Peninsula, by North Korea's threat of war the tension escalates and serious crisis continues. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the subjective perception which the residents of South Korea feel about North Korea's threat of war through a Q methodological analysis framework. In the result of the study, for the North Korea's threat of war the South Korean's recognition type is analyzed into four type such as 'non-reactive', 'fearreactive', 'psychological anxiety' and 'cynical ignorance type'. First, the No. 1 type 'non-reactive' does not empathize with North Korea's threat of war itself, and second type 'fear-reactive' have uneasy feeling like that 'What would happen as things go' and feel a sense of crisis about the North Korea's threat of war. The third type 'psychological anxiety' is type which feels that due to North Korea's threat of war inter-Korean relations is in the crisis. Finally the fourth type 'cynical ignorance' think that North Korea's threat of war is bluffing and also North Korea is like a shepherd boy. The reason to apply Q-methodology in this study is to make it possible to a more in-depth approach to subjective perception and threat of psychological meaning for the threatening message of study participants.

Effects of the User's Perceived Threat to Freedom and Personalization on Intention to Use Recommendation Services (자유 위협과 개인화에 대한 사용자의 지각이 상품 추천 서비스 수용에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Gyu-Dong;Kim, Jong-Uk;Lee, Won-Jun
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.123-145
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    • 2007
  • There are flourishing studies in the acceptance or usage of information systems literature. Most of them have taken the pro - acceptance view. Undesirably, information technologies often provoke users' reactance or resistance. This paper explores one of the negative reactions -psychological reactance. The present paper studies the effects of the users' perception of threatened freedom and personalization degree on intention to use recommendation services. High personalization can be a major motivation for users to accept recommendation systems. However recommendation services are a two-edged sword, which not only provides users the efficiency of decision making but also poses threats to free choice. When people consider that their freedom is reduced or threatened by others, they experience the motivational state to restore the freedom. This motivational state must be considered in understanding usage of information systems, especially personalized services which are designed for persuasion or compliance. This paper empirically investigates the effect of personalization and the psychological reactance on the intention to use information systems in the personalized recommendation context. Users' perception of personalization increases the usefulness of recommendation service while their perception of threat to freedom reduces the intention to use personalized recommendation service. Findings and implications are discussed.

Analysis of The Effects of Information Security Policy Sanction, Perceived Threat, and Perception of Information Security Climate on Compliance Behavioral Intention: Focursing on Prospect and Goal Orientation (정보 보안 제재성과 위협 인식, 분위기 인식이 준수 행동 의도성에 미치는 영향 분석: 전망 관점과 목표 지향 관점을 중심으로)

  • Hu, Sung Ho;Hwang, In-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.595-602
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    • 2021
  • This study evaluates the impact of an information security policy sanction, a perceived threat, and the perception of the information security climate on a compliance behavioral intention. The research method was structured with a cross-sectional study design for the prospect and goal orientation. The variables used in the analysis are information security policy sanction, perceived threat, perception of information security climate, and compliance behavioral intention. Progress in this research consists of measuring the prospect and goal orientation, and then measuring the four variables. As a result, the prospect had a significant effect on the perception of the information security climate, and it was found that the influence of the gain-based condition was greater than the loss-based condition. Goal orientation had a significant effect on the information security policy sanction, the perceived threat, and the compliance behavioral intention, and the influence of the development-based condition was greater than the stability-based condition. Both prospect and goal orientation had an interactive effect on the compliance behavioral intention. The exploration model was verified as a mediation model. In addition, the discussion includes the appropriate implications for information security based on these research results.

Doing More by Seeing Less: Gritty Applicants are Less Sensitive to Facial Threat Cues

  • Shin, Ji-eun;Lee, Hyeonju
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2022
  • People differ greatly in their capacity to persist in the face of challenges. Despite significant research, relatively little is known about cognitive factors that might be involved in perseverance. Building upon human threat-management mechanism, we predicted that perseverant people would be characterized by reduced sensitivity (i.e., longer detection latency) to threat cues. Our data from 5,898 job applicants showed that highly perseverant individuals required more time to correctly identify anger in faces, regardless of stimulus type (dynamic or static computer-morphed faces). Such individual differences were not observed in response to other facial expressions (happiness, sadness), and the effect was independent of gender, dispositional anxiety, or conscientiousness. Discussions were centered on the potential role of threat sensitivity in effortful pursuit of goals.

Examining Tourists' Behavior Using Protection Motivation Theory and Health Belief Model: Covid-19 Crisis (보호동기이론(PMT)과 건강신념모델(HBM)을 이용한 관광객 위기대응 행동 분석: COVID-19 위기)

  • Woo, Eun-Ju;Lee, Sang-Tak
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.301-315
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - The main objective of this study was to investigate tourists behavior by applying protection motivation theory and health belief model during COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the study examined how risk perception of COVID-19 affects tourists' protection motivation and travel avoidance intention. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical data was collected by self-administered questionnaires to obtain perception and behavior regarding COVID-19 pandemic situation. A total of 486 questionnaires were used for data analysis and SEM analysis was applied in order to examine seven hypotheses. Findings-The results showed that COVID-19 risk perception is a significant antecedent of threat appraisal, coping appraisal, and cue to action (H1, H2, H6). Moreover, protection motivation is affected by threat appraisal and coping appraisal (H3, H4) and influences on travel avoidance intention (H5). However, cue to action does not affect protection motivation (H7). Research implications or Originality - This study provides insightful implications for tourism industry practitioners who will prepare the post-corona field and the results enrich knowledge of the tourist behavior during pandemic situation.

Effect of Stereotype Threat on Spatial Working Memory and Emotion Recognition in Korean elderly (노화에 대한 고정관념 위협이 노인의 공간 작업기억 및 정서인식에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Kyoung eun;Lee, Wanjeoung;Choi, Kee-hong;Kim, Hyun Taek;Choi, June-seek
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.1109-1124
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    • 2016
  • We examined the effect of stereotype threat (STT) on spatial working memory and facial emotion recognition in Korean elderly. In addition, we investigated the role of expected moderator such as self-perception of aging. Seventeen seniors (male=7) received basic cognitive tests including K-WMS-IV, MMSE and answered self-report questionnaires including self-perception of aging, anxiety of aging, attitude toward aging and age identity on the first visit. On the second visit, they were exposed to negative stereotype by reading a script detailing cognitive decline related to aging while a control group was exposed to a neutral content. Following the exposure, they were tested on a spatial-working memory task (Corsi-block tapping task) and emotion recognition task (facial expression identification task). The results showed that the seniors exposed to STT showed significantly lower performance on emotion recognition task (p < .05) (i.e., especially on the more difficult facial stimuli). In addition, there was a significant interaction between STT and self-perception of aging (p< .05), indicating that those who have positive self-perception of aging did not show impairment in emotion recognition task and difficult spatial working memory task under STT. On the other hand, those with negative self-perception of aging showed impaired performance under STT. Taken together, the current study suggests that being exposed to STT could negatively influence cognitive and emotional functioning of elderly. Interestingly, having a positive self-perception of aging could protect the underperformance caused by STT.

The Factors Affecting Smartphone User's Intention to use Mobile Anti-Malware SW (스마트폰 이용자의 악성코드용 모바일 백신 이용 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Jang, Jaeyoung;Kim, Jidong;Kim, Beomsoo
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.113-131
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    • 2014
  • Smartphone security threat has become an important issue in Information Science field following the wide distribution of smartphones. However, there are few studies related to such. Therefore, this study examined the factors affecting the intention of smartphone users to use the mobile vaccine against malware with the Protection Motivation Theory. To secure the reliability of the study, a surveying agency was commissioned. A total of 263 respondents, excluding 37 respondents who are users of iOS, which does not have mobile vaccine in the smart phone, or who gave invalid responses, were surveyed. The results showed that perception of the installed mobile vaccine significantly affected the Response Efficacy and Self-efficacy, and that the Perceived Severity, Perceived Vulnerability, Response Efficacy, and Self-efficacy significantly influenced the intention to use the mobile vaccine. On the other hand, Installation Perception of mobile vaccine itself did not affect the Perceived Severity and Perceived Vulnerability. This study is significant since it presented the new evaluation model of threat evaluation and response evaluation in the Protection Motivation Theory in accepting the security technology and raised the need for the promotion and exposure of mobile vaccine, since perception of mobile vaccine installation affects the response evaluation. It also found that the promotion must consider the seriousness of smartphone security, outstanding attribute of mobile vaccine, and user-friendliness of mobile vaccine above all.

The role of risk perception for the definition of acceptable risk (위험 인식이 위험성 수용 기준 설정에 미치는 역할)

  • 노삼규
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 1995
  • Acceptable risk problem are decision problems they requires a choice among different estimations of technological risks. The alternative option includes a threat to life among its consequences. However, the definition used to ignore the public's perceived risk which should be identified as acceptable risk. The study examine the role of perception of risk as acceptable risk between different situations of estimated consequence and probability of risk. The cost benefit principle for the reduction of risk applied to find the possible solutions with in decision making process.

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