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COMMUNICATION REPORTS
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2023.2278486
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Message framing; narrative persuasion; self-efficacy; social cognitive; theory; social comparison
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The current study investigated the effects of protagonist self-efficacy and social comparison self-evaluation on the story outcomes of sleep and alcohol topics. The results showed that, in alcohol narratives, participants who compared themselves to low self-efficacy, negative ending protagonists experienced a greater positive change in alcohol self-efficacy.
The effects of gain and loss frames have been examined extensively, but there can be more nuance in health narratives. Experimental research with narratives has not yet thoroughly investigated all combinations of protagonists' health recommendation compliance and story outcomes. People engaging in healthy behaviors may experience negative outcomes. The current study utilized social cognitive theory to investigate protagonist self-efficacy (low vs. high) and social comparison self-evaluation as moderators of story outcome (positive vs. negative) with sleep and alcohol topics. A three-way interaction indicated that, for the alcohol narratives, the more participants compared themselves to low self-efficacy, negative ending protagonists (vs. low self-efficacy, positive ending protagonists), the greater their positive change in alcohol self-efficacy.
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