TY - JOUR
T1 - Education differences in cancer fatalism
T2 - the role of information-seeking experiences
AU - Emanuel, Amber S.
AU - Godinho, Cristina A.
AU - Steinman, Christopher
AU - Updegraff, John A.
N1 - Funding Information:
cross-sectional data from Cycle 1 of the NCI’s 2012 HINTS (2012). HINTS was deemed exempt from Institutional Review Board (IRB) review by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Human Subjects Research. All research was conducted in accordance with the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Cancer fatalism is the belief that cancer is uncontrollable and lethal. Individuals with less education are more likely to hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer, but the mechanism accounting for the relationship is unknown. We tested whether negative health information seeking experiences explain this relationship. Structural equation modeling was used to test this relationship across three datasets from the Health Information National Trends Survey. Across all datasets, the model showed good fit: Cycle 1 (coefficient of determination =.11, comparative fit index =.96, root mean square error of approximation =.047), Cycle 2 (coefficient of determination =.06, comparative fit index =.96, root mean square error of approximation =.046), and Cycle 3 (coefficient of determination =.08, comparative fit index =.95, root mean square error of approximation =.052). The link between lower education level and higher cancer fatalism was partially mediated by negative health information seeking experiences.
AB - Cancer fatalism is the belief that cancer is uncontrollable and lethal. Individuals with less education are more likely to hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer, but the mechanism accounting for the relationship is unknown. We tested whether negative health information seeking experiences explain this relationship. Structural equation modeling was used to test this relationship across three datasets from the Health Information National Trends Survey. Across all datasets, the model showed good fit: Cycle 1 (coefficient of determination =.11, comparative fit index =.96, root mean square error of approximation =.047), Cycle 2 (coefficient of determination =.06, comparative fit index =.96, root mean square error of approximation =.046), and Cycle 3 (coefficient of determination =.08, comparative fit index =.95, root mean square error of approximation =.052). The link between lower education level and higher cancer fatalism was partially mediated by negative health information seeking experiences.
KW - Cancer
KW - Cancer fatalism
KW - Education
KW - Fatalism
KW - Health information seeking
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U2 - 10.1177/1359105316664129
DO - 10.1177/1359105316664129
M3 - Article
C2 - 27553609
AN - SCOPUS:85053935602
SN - 1359-1053
VL - 23
SP - 1533
EP - 1544
JO - Journal of Health Psychology
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
IS - 12
ER -
