Information seeking and exposure patterns have long been major issues in communication literature. In line with these concerns, a correlational study was conducted examining the predictive utility of an elaborated Theory of Reasoned Action (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975) as it focused on students' expectation to seek sexually related preventive health information. Elaboration included merging elements of the Protection Motivation Theory (Rogers, 1975) and Instrumental Utilities and Information Seeking (Atkin, 1972) in the model. Elaboration also included adding critical psychosocial components to enhance the models' predictive utility. Components of this extended model were examined to determine their contributions to understanding sexually related preventive health information seeking processes among students. Results from this study generally support the use of an elaborated Theory of Reasoned Action as an effective tool for explaining and predicting sexually related health information seeking practices among young adults. Indications are that psychosocial antecedents to those practices are students' normative beliefs, direct behavioral experiences, and behavioral norms. / This study, however, failed to support the use of Rogers' (1975) Protective Motivation Theory as a basis for developing a domain of behavioral beliefs to be used in the elaborated expectancy-value model. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0663. / Major Professor: Gary R. Heald. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76572 |
| Contributors | Bronson, Harold Lee., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 216 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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