The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis

IF 12.7 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

ACS Central Science Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI:10.1080/10463283.2016.1245940

S. Wilding, M. Conner, Tracy Sandberg, A. Prestwich, R. Lawton, Chantelle Wood, E. Miles, G. Godin, P. Sheeran

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Research has demonstrated that asking people questions about a behaviour can lead to behaviour change. Despite many, varied studies in different domains, it is only recently that this phenomenon has been studied under the umbrella term of the question-behaviour effect (QBE) and moderators of the effect have been investigated. With a particular focus on our own contributions, this article: (1) provides an overview of QBE research; (2) reviews and offers new evidence concerning three theoretical accounts of the QBE (behavioural simulation and processing fluency; attitude accessibility; cognitive dissonance); (3) reports a new meta-analysis of QBE studies (k = 66, reporting 94 tests) focusing on methodological moderators. The findings of this meta-analysis support a small significant effect of the QBE (g = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.11, 0.18, p < .001) with smaller effect sizes observed in more carefully controlled studies that exhibit less risk of bias and (4) also considers directions for future research on the QBE, especially studies that use designs with low risk of bias and consider desirable and undesirable behaviour separately.

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问题-行为效应:理论和方法回顾及元分析

研究表明，向人们询问一种行为可以导致行为改变。尽管在不同的领域进行了许多不同的研究，但直到最近，这种现象才在问题行为效应(QBE)的总称下进行了研究，并研究了该效应的调节因子。本文特别关注我们自己的贡献:(1)提供了QBE研究的概述;(2)对QBE的三个理论解释(行为模拟和加工流畅性;态度的可访问性;认知失调);(3)报告了一项新的QBE研究荟萃分析(k = 66，报告了94个测试)，重点关注方法调节因子。本荟萃分析的结果支持QBE的小显著效应(g = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.11, 0.18, p < .001)，在更仔细控制的研究中观察到较小的效应大小，表现出更低的偏倚风险，(4)也考虑了QBE的未来研究方向，特别是使用低偏倚风险的设计并分别考虑可取和不可取行为的研究。

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ACS Central Science Chemical Engineering-General Chemical Engineering

CiteScore

25.50

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0.50%

发文量

194

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10 weeks

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