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Investigating The Relationships Between Personality, Valence And Modern Health Worries, Thomas Green
Investigating The Relationships Between Personality, Valence And Modern Health Worries, Thomas Green
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In our evolving world, new technologies and practices are frequently introduced to society and assimilated into daily life. People often form concerns about how these new technologies, and other types of change, affect public health and the surrounding environment. This paper aims to form a better understanding of Modern Health Worries (MHW). Two studies were conducted: one investigating personality correlates of the MHW scale, and a second examining the covariation of the MHW scale with participants’ valence and arousal ratings of images of MHWs selected in terms categories presented in the literature.
Undergraduate students at Syracuse University (n=143) took part …