Enhancing the Effectiveness of Alcohol Warning Labels With a Self-Affirming Implementation Intention

ARMITAGE, Christopher J and ARDEN, Madelynne (2016). Enhancing the Effectiveness of Alcohol Warning Labels With a Self-Affirming Implementation Intention. Health psychology, 35 (10), 1159-1163.

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Abstract

Objective. Excess alcohol consumption extorts significant social and economic costs that are increasing despite the presence of mandatory warning labels on packaged alcoholic beverages. We used a novel approach by adding a brief statement based on self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988) to alcohol warning labels. Method. In two studies (N = 85; N = 58), we randomized regular wine drinkers recruited from University campuses to complete a wine pouring task with bottles that had standard labelling, or bottles that added a self-affirming implementation intention to the standard labeling. Alcohol consumption, behavioral intention and self-efficacy were measured pre-manipulation; message acceptance was measured post-manipulation; and alcohol consumption, behavioral intention and self-efficacy were measured again at follow-up. Results. In both studies, the self-affirming implementation intention significantly reduced subsequent alcohol consumption (ds = 0.70 and 0.91, respectively). However, message acceptance, behavioral intention, and self-efficacy did not significantly mediate the observed effects. Conclusions. Self-affirming implementation intentions augmented the effect of alcohol warning labels to reduce subsequent alcohol consumption, but – consistent with the broader self-affirmation literature – it was not clear what mediated the effects. Further research is required to examine whether self-affirming implementation intentions could augment the effects of other kinds of public health-related labelling.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Psychology Research Group
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000376
Page Range:	1159-1163
Depositing User:	Madelynne Arden
Date Deposited:	26 Apr 2016 16:29
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2023 09:46
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12127

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