Anticipated Emotions and Personal Experience for Predicting Behavioral Intentions and Behavioral Expectations

We tested how anticipated emotions interact with personal experience in risk behavior to improve predictions from TPB on behavioral intention (BI) and behavioral expectation (BE) for sex without condom (Study 1) and excessive drinking (Study 2). In the moderate-high experience group, anticipated emo...

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Autores: Carrera Levillain, Pilar, Caballero González, Amparo, Muñoz Cáceres, María Dolores, Oceja Fernández, Luis Venancio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/718596
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/718596
https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_SJOP.2011.v14.n2.2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:behavioral intentions
behavioural expectations
anticipated emotions
risk behavior
personal experience
Psicología
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Sumario:We tested how anticipated emotions interact with personal experience in risk behavior to improve predictions from TPB on behavioral intention (BI) and behavioral expectation (BE) for sex without condom (Study 1) and excessive drinking (Study 2). In the moderate-high experience group, anticipated emotional profiles (AEPs) improve TPB prediction from 28% to 45% in the case of BI and from 19% to 40% in that of BE in relation to sexual risk behavior (Study 1), and from 23% to 36% in the case of BI and from 17% to 31% in that of BE in relation to binge drinking (Study 2). However, in the low-experience group (Study 2) AEPs improve TPB predictions for BI (12% to 34%) but not for BE, showing that in less experienced people BI and BE are not equivalent: anticipated emotions have different relevance in their prediction. These results were replicated using a general negative anticipated emotion index (averaging emotional categories)