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- Title
Control, Denial, and Heightened Sensitivity Reactions to Personal Threat: Testing the Generalizability of the Threat Orientation Approach.
- Authors
Thompson, Suzanne C.; Schlehofer, Michèle M.
- Abstract
The threat orientation model proposes three dispositional responses to threats: control, heightened sensitivity, and denial. Two studies explored the psychometric properties of the previously developed threat orientation scales and the relationship between the orientations and the responses to a variety of threats. Study 1 found that the control-based and heightened sensitivity--based scales are reliable and were related to perceptions of health, financial, and terrorist threats with a nationally representative sample. Findings held across gender, age, and ethnic groups. Furthermore, Study 1 suggested two types of denial processes: optimistic denial and avoidance denial. Study 2 used a diverse sample to gain additional evidence for two processes of denial and developed measures of each type.
- Subjects
PSYCHOMETRICS; SCALING (Social sciences); FACTOR analysis; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; PSYCHOLOGICAL techniques; MULTIDIMENSIONAL scaling; GOAL Attainment Scaling; META-analysis; SCALE analysis (Psychology)
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1070
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167208318403