Short Report of REG Focus Studies 1

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Short Report of REG Focus Studies 1 2
Kyungil, Andrew, Brian, and Patrick
Project Boss Arthur B. Markman
Project Manager Leora Orent
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Common methods- Frame manipulation

• Procedure
• Materials 8 activities
• 4 exciting activities video game, solitaire,
  blackjack, and dart game
• 4 unexciting activities alphabetizing,
  proofreading, transcribing video/audio tapes, and
  surveying by phone,
• Choice tasks
• Task 1 Which is the one you would most like to
  do?
• Task 2 Which activity is the one you are most
  interested in not doing?
• Frame manipulation (see instructions below)
• A subtraction task (5 minutes)
• Instructions for frame manipulation If you do
  well on the subtraction task,
• Promotion you will be allowed to do the task
  you chose as you most would like to do for 15
  minutes, otherwise you will not.
• Prevention you will not have to do the task you
  chose as you most would not like to do, otherwise
  you will for 15 minutes.

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Common methods

• Manipulation of Need to smoke (NTS) imagery task
  (CepedaBenito Tiffany, 1996)
• Materials 6 different stories
• For High need to smoke (HNS) group each story
  described smoking cravings (urge).
• For Low need to smoke (LNS) group each story
  described smoking unrelated things (no-urge).
• Except for the above difference, stories are the
  same between conditions.
• Procedure (after each story)
• Imagery task after reading each story (8 sec)
• Please imagine the situation described in the
  sentence.
• Self-description task
• Please write down the sentence that we asked you
  to imagine
• Others vividness rating / positive experience
  rating / negative experience rating

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Example of stories in NTS manipulation

• I am with my friends and we are laughing and
  having a good time. As I watch some of them
  lighting up I think about joining them, knowing
  that smoking would make things even better. (for
  High group)
• I am with my friends and we are laughing and
  having a good time. As I watch some of them
  playing cards I think about joining them, knowing
  that it would make things even better. (for Low
  group)

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Common methods

• Coffee Manipulation
• Ask subjects to drink a cup of coffee
• High Need to Smoke (HNS) group just coffee
• Low Need to Smoke (LNS) group coffee smoked a
  cigarette
• We controlled even cigarette brand ?

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Common methods (Scales)

• Manipulation check
• Scale (Cox, Tiffany, Christen, 2001)
• The brief questionnaire of smoking urges
  (QSU-brief)
• 10 questions ex) I have a desire for a
  cigarette right now.
• 7-point scale
• Cigarette length
• 14 different lengths (real length between 7th
  and 8th)
• UWIST mood adjective checklist
• 24 adjectives / 4 subscales
• We measured three subscales
• Hedonic Tone e.g., happy and sad
• General Arousal e.g., vigorous and
  unenterprising
• Tense arousal e.g., tense and calm
• Citation Matthews, G., Jones, D. M.,
  Chamberlain, A. G. (1990). Refining the
  Measurement of Mood - the Uwist Mood Adjective
  Checklist. British Journal of Psychology, 81,
  17-42.

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Procedures

• Experiment 1
• Frame manipulation ? Coffee manipulation ? NTS
  manipulation ? manipulation check ? Item rating
• Experiment 2
• Frame manipulation ? Coffee manipulation ? NTS
  manipulation ? manipulation check ? Concern rating

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Rating materials

• Experiment 1 5 item categories
• Cigarette brands e.g., Marlboro, Camel
• Instrumental items e.g., lighter, ashtray
• Affiliated food e.g. Beer, Coke
• Affiliated non-food e.g., Marlboro jacket, Camel
  wall clock
• Smoking unrelated items e.g., University of
  Texas postcards
• Experiment 2 3 concern categories
• Smoking related health concerns e.g., lung
  cancer
• Unrelated health concerns e.g., skin rash
• Unrelated non-health concerns e.g., tax reporting

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Legend for SPSS outputs

• Conditions
• Frame condition CD1_FRM (1 Promotion / 2
  Prevention)
• Need condition CD2_NEED (1 High / 2 Low)
• Categories in Experiment 1 (median)
• Cigarette brands / Instrumental items /
  Affiliated foods / Affiliated nonfoods /
  Unrelated items
• Categories in Experiment 2 (median)
• Smoking related health concern SRHC
• Smoking unrelated health concern SURHC
• Smoking unrelated non-health concern SURNHC

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Overview of results (Median Table)
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Experiment 1
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Descriptive data Scales others
UWIST
QSU Length
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Manipulation check - QSU

• Significant effect of Need manipulation
  (CD2_NEED)
• No effect of frame manipulation (CD1_FRM)

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Manipulation checks QSU (cont.)
Promotion
Prevention

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UWIST

• No systematic differences in subscales
• Hedonic Tone
• Tense Arousal
• General Arousal

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3 way interaction

• Significant 3-way interaction Frame, Need, and
  Item Type (Factor1)

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Promotion condition

• Significant differences in cigarette brands and
  instrumental items (valuation) and unrelated
  items (devaluation) between the two Need
  conditions

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Promotion condition (cont.)
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Promotion condition (cont.)
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Prevention condition

• No significant difference in categories between
  the two Need conditions

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Prevention condition (cont.)
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Prevention condition (cont.)
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Item analyses promotion

• Significant differences between item categories

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Item analyses - Promotion (cont.)
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Item analyses - prevention
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Item analyses - Graph
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Experiment 2
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Descriptive data scales others
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Descriptive data age gender
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Manipulation check - QSU

• Significant effect of Need manipulation
  (CD2_NEED)
• No effect of frame manipulation (CD1_FRM)

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Manipulation checks QSU (cont.)
Promotion
Prevention

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UWIST

• No systematic differences in subscales
• Hedonic Tone
• Tense Arousal
• General Arousal

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3-way interaction

• Significant 3-way interaction Frame, Need, and
  Concern category
• No systematic effect of Age or Gender
• Age F(1,149).014, p .918 / Gender
  F(1,149).012, p.914

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Promotion condition

• No significant difference in ratings for each
  concern category between the two Need conditions

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Promotion condition (cont.)
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Prevention condition

• Significant differences in smoking related health
  concerns (valuation) and unrelated health
  concerns (devaluation) between the two Need
  conditions ? center-surround?

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Prevention condition (cont.)
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Others individuals total concern ratings

• No effect of the two conditions on overall
  concern ratings (e.g., mean of total ratings)

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Item analyses - Promotion
Dependent variable median
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Item analyses Promotion (cont.)
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Item analyses - Prevention
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Item analyses Prevention (cont.)
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Item analyses (graph)