Linking environmental risks and cancer risks within the framework of genetic-behavioural causal beliefs, cancer fatalism, and macrosocial worry

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Health Risk & Society Pub Date : 2020-11-16 DOI:10.1080/13698575.2020.1852535

Soo Jung Hong

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In this study, we investigate the relationships among worries about environmental health risks, genetic and behavioural causal beliefs about cancer prevention, perceived cancer risk, and cancer fatalism based on the concepts of macrosocial worry and affect heuristic. Nationally representative data from the National Cancer Institute’s Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) 4 Cycle 2 dataset was employed. We conducted hierarchical multiple regression analyses by employing SPSS Macro for Probing Interactions in OLS and Logistic Regression. According to the results of this study, worry about environmental risks was positively and significantly associated with both genetic and behavioural causal beliefs. The more individuals worry about environmental risks, the less fatalistic beliefs they have. Behavioural causal beliefs negatively and significantly influenced cancer risk perceptions as well as cancer fatalism, moderating the associations between genetic causal beliefs, cancer risk perceptions, and cancer fatalism. Moreover, worry about environmental risks was found to be a mediator linking cancer causal beliefs and cancer fatalism. The results of moderation tests suggest socio-economic disparities exist in cancer and environmental risk perceptions as well as causal beliefs related to cancer.

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在遗传行为因果信念、癌症宿命论和宏观社会担忧的框架内，将环境风险与癌症风险联系起来

本研究基于宏观社会担忧和影响启发式的概念，探讨了环境健康风险担忧、癌症预防的遗传和行为因果信念、癌症风险感知和癌症宿命论之间的关系。采用了来自美国国家癌症研究所健康信息国家趋势调查(HINTS) 4周期2数据集的具有全国代表性的数据。我们使用SPSS Macro进行分层多元回归分析，以探测OLS和逻辑回归中的相互作用。根据这项研究的结果，对环境风险的担忧与遗传和行为因果信念呈正相关。个人越担心环境风险，他们的宿命论信仰就越少。行为因果信念对癌症风险认知和癌症宿命论产生负向和显著影响，调节了遗传因果信念、癌症风险认知和癌症宿命论之间的关联。此外，对环境风险的担忧是癌症因果信念与癌症宿命论之间的中介。适度测试的结果表明，在癌症和环境风险认知以及与癌症相关的因果信念方面存在社会经济差异。

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期刊介绍： Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed. Public awareness of risk is associated with the development of high profile media debates about specific risks. Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health. Not only is health a major issue of personal and collective concern, but failure to effectively assess and manage risk is likely to result in health problems.