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Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy?
A study with United States undergraduate students showed individuals high in concern with future consequences engage in exercise and healthy eating because they adopt a promotion orientation, which represents the extent to which individuals are inclined to pursue positive gains. The present article...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28790939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01202 |
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author | Milfont, Taciano L. Vilar, Roosevelt Araujo, Rafaella C. R. Stanley, Robert |
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description | A study with United States undergraduate students showed individuals high in concern with future consequences engage in exercise and healthy eating because they adopt a promotion orientation, which represents the extent to which individuals are inclined to pursue positive gains. The present article reports a cross-cultural replication of the mediation findings with undergraduate samples from Brazil and New Zealand. Promotion orientation mediated the association between concern with future consequences and exercise attitudes in both countries, but the associations for healthy eating were not replicated—which could be explained by distinct obesity prevalence and eating habits in these socio-cultural contexts. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the findings for promoting health behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-55249212017-08-08 Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? Milfont, Taciano L. Vilar, Roosevelt Araujo, Rafaella C. R. Stanley, Robert Front Psychol Psychology A study with United States undergraduate students showed individuals high in concern with future consequences engage in exercise and healthy eating because they adopt a promotion orientation, which represents the extent to which individuals are inclined to pursue positive gains. The present article reports a cross-cultural replication of the mediation findings with undergraduate samples from Brazil and New Zealand. Promotion orientation mediated the association between concern with future consequences and exercise attitudes in both countries, but the associations for healthy eating were not replicated—which could be explained by distinct obesity prevalence and eating habits in these socio-cultural contexts. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the findings for promoting health behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5524921/ /pubmed/28790939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01202 Text en Copyright © 2017 Milfont, Vilar, Araujo and Stanley. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Milfont, Taciano L. Vilar, Roosevelt Araujo, Rafaella C. R. Stanley, Robert Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title | Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title_full | Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title_fullStr | Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title_short | Does Promotion Orientation Help Explain Why Future-Orientated People Exercise and Eat Healthy? |
title_sort | does promotion orientation help explain why future-orientated people exercise and eat healthy? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28790939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01202 |
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