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Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample
Previous research has demonstrated associations between delay discount rate and engagement in several health behaviors. The delay discount rate is also inversely associated with social discount rates, a putative measure for sharing. However, there is little research that examines whether delay and s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9396243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36016889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.943499 |
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author | Bibriescas, Natashia Wainwright, Katherine Thomas, Rebecca Lopez, Victoria Romanowich, Paul |
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description | Previous research has demonstrated associations between delay discount rate and engagement in several health behaviors. The delay discount rate is also inversely associated with social discount rates, a putative measure for sharing. However, there is little research that examines whether delay and social discount rates are differentially associated with health behavior engagement, and even less research examining the impact of ethnicity on these relationships. This study investigated whether delay and/or social discount rates predict three health behaviors varying in sociality: sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, alcohol consumption and exercise frequency in an ethnically diverse university sample. The results showed that neither delay nor social discount rate significantly predicted alcohol consumption and exercise frequency. However, increasing social discount rates (i.e., decreased sharing) was associated with a decreased likelihood to be tested for STIs. Ethnicity significantly contributed to two models, indicating differences in STI testing and alcohol consumption across ethnicities. Ethnic differences in these health behaviors were consistent with many previous health behavior studies, suggesting a profitable way to research cultural contingencies and test the reliability of the ethnically diverse data. These findings indicate that the social discount rate is differentially associated with health behaviors with more social aspects (i.e., health behaviors related to sex) in college students. |
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spelling | pubmed-93962432022-08-24 Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample Bibriescas, Natashia Wainwright, Katherine Thomas, Rebecca Lopez, Victoria Romanowich, Paul Front Public Health Public Health Previous research has demonstrated associations between delay discount rate and engagement in several health behaviors. The delay discount rate is also inversely associated with social discount rates, a putative measure for sharing. However, there is little research that examines whether delay and social discount rates are differentially associated with health behavior engagement, and even less research examining the impact of ethnicity on these relationships. This study investigated whether delay and/or social discount rates predict three health behaviors varying in sociality: sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, alcohol consumption and exercise frequency in an ethnically diverse university sample. The results showed that neither delay nor social discount rate significantly predicted alcohol consumption and exercise frequency. However, increasing social discount rates (i.e., decreased sharing) was associated with a decreased likelihood to be tested for STIs. Ethnicity significantly contributed to two models, indicating differences in STI testing and alcohol consumption across ethnicities. Ethnic differences in these health behaviors were consistent with many previous health behavior studies, suggesting a profitable way to research cultural contingencies and test the reliability of the ethnically diverse data. These findings indicate that the social discount rate is differentially associated with health behaviors with more social aspects (i.e., health behaviors related to sex) in college students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9396243/ /pubmed/36016889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.943499 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bibriescas, Wainwright, Thomas, Lopez and Romanowich. https://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) and the copyright owner(s) 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 | Public Health Bibriescas, Natashia Wainwright, Katherine Thomas, Rebecca Lopez, Victoria Romanowich, Paul Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title | Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title_full | Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title_fullStr | Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title_full_unstemmed | Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title_short | Differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
title_sort | differential relationships between discount rates and health behaviors in an ethnically diverse college sample |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9396243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36016889 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.943499 |
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