Cognitive Rationalizations for Tanning-bed Use: a Preliminary Exploration

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Journal Am J Health Behav

Date 2013 Aug 30

PMID 23985280

Citations 4

Authors

Smita C Banerjee

Jennifer L Hay

Kathryn Greene

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Abstract

Objectives: To examine construct and predictive utility of an adapted cognitive rationalization scale for tanning-bed use.

Methods: Current/former tanning-bedusing undergraduate students (N = 216; 87.6% females; 78.4% white) at a large northeastern university participated in a survey. A cognitive rationalization for tanning-bed use scale was adapted. Standardized self-report measures of past tanning-bed use, advantages of tanning, perceived vulnerability to photoaging, tanning-bed use dependence, and tanning-bed use intention were also administered.

Results: The cognitive rationalization scale exhibited strong construct and predictive validity. Current tanners and tanning-bed-use-dependent participants endorsed rationalizations more strongly than did former tanners and not-tanning-bed-use-dependent participants respectively.

Conclusions: Findings indicate that cognitive rationalizations help explain discrepancy between inconsistent cognitions.

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