Michael T Stephenson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 93967 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael T Stephenson |
| NOMBRES | Michael T |
| APELLIDO | Stephenson |
| FIRMA | STEPHENSON M T |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2626-3488 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Group-based assessments and L2 interactional competence
Although interaction-based research has investigated various second language (L2) testing formats, less attention has been given to group-based assessments compared to the more widely studied oral proficiency interview (OPI) and paired L2 assessment formats. The current study draws upon around 7 h of video-recorded group-based assessments at a university-affiliated higher education (HE) institution in the UK. During these assessments, test-takers…
Advancing Health Communication Research
Impulsivity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between BIS/BAS and Risky Health Behaviors
Several theorists have suggested that impulsivity can be understood as a joint function of the behavioral approach (BAS) and behavioral inhibition systems (BIS). After resolving questions concerning the measurement of impulsivity and BAS, this study examined the relationships among risky health behaviors, impulsivity, BIS, and BAS. Utilizing a sample of undergraduates (N = 904), a structural model was tested in which BAS and BIS predicted impulsi…
Impulsivity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between BIS/BAS and Risky Health Behaviors
Several theorists have suggested that impulsivity can be understood as a joint function of the behavioral approach (BAS) and behavioral inhibition systems (BIS). After resolving questions concerning the measurement of impulsivity and BAS, this study examined the relationships among risky health behaviors, impulsivity, BIS, and BAS. Utilizing a sample of undergraduates (N=904), a structural model was tested in which BAS and BIS predicted impulsivi…
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration
The present investigation sought to advance Psychological Reactance Theory (PRT) by examining whether trait reactance and sensation seeking influence the magnitude of a perceived threat, state reactance, and reactance restoration. Results revealed that high trait reactant (HTR) and low trait reactant (LTR) individuals and high sensation seekers (HSS) and low sensation seekers (LSS) processed persuasive messages similarly, adding credibility to re…
Further Evidence That Psychological Reactance Can Be Modeled as a Combination of Anger and Negative Cognitions
The primary objective of this investigation was to validate the recent operationalization of state reactance as a latent construct comprised of both affective and cognitive components. In addition to testing the operationalization of reactance, the authors tested the conceptual coherence of this construct by examining its association with threat-to-choice perceptions and ad persuasiveness of condom ads. Across seven condom television ads, the aut…
Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Marijuana Initiative Campaign on High-Sensation-Seeking Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effects of the Marijuana Initiative portion of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign on high-sensation-seeking and low-sensation-seeking adolescents. Methods. Personal interviews were conducted via laptop computers with independent monthly random samples of 100 youths from the same age cohort in each of 2 moderate-sized communities over 48 months (April 1999–March 2003) o…
Sensation Seeking, the Activation Model, and Mass Media Health Campaigns
Journal Article Sensation Seeking, the Activation Model, and Mass Media Health Campaigns: Current Findings and Future Directions for Cancer Communication Get access Michael T. Stephenson, Michael T. Stephenson 1Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brian G. Southwell Brian G. Southwell 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication, …
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
A Monte Carlo Simulation of Observable Versus Latent Variable Structural Equation Modeling Techniques
In this study, three approaches commonly used by communication scientists to specify structural relationships using full-information maximum likelihood structural equation modeling are investigated. Specifically, a simulation study using Monte Carlo techniques was conducted to compare the structural paths generated by each of the three structural equation model types. Two of the three approaches utilized forms of latent variable modeling, and the…
The Importance of Indirect Effects in Media Effects Research
This essay addresses the need for media effects researchers to decompose their structural equation models. We highlight the importance of studying specific indirect effects within a conditional effects framework and discuss how the lack of analysis of this type of effect in structural equation modeling does not fit well with the discipline's theoretical foundations. We summarize several classes of mediation formulas and make recommendations for t…
Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveys
Mass Media Strategies Targeting High Sensation Seekers
Mass mediated anti-drug campaigns aimed at high sensation seekers are effective tools for drug prevention
Examining Adolescents' Responses to Antimarijuana PSAs
The research reported here investigated sensation seeking as a moderating variable of 368 adolescents' reactions to antimarijuana public service announcements. Participants rated the perceived message sensation value of 3 antimarijuana TV ads, their processing of the consequences of marijuana use, their affective responses to the ads, and antimarijuana attitudes. Two structural equation models—1 for high sensation seekers and the other for low se…
Reliability and validity of a brief measure of sensation seeking
Effects of Watching Primary Debates in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign
This essay reports the results of 2 studies measuring the effects of watching U.S. presidential primary debates. Using a pretest-posttest design, participants watched either a Republican (October 22, 1999) or a Democratic (October 27, 1999) New Hampshire primary debate. Those who watched each debate learned more about the candidates' policies, formed evaluations of candidates who were less well-known, and changed their evaluations of better known…
Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995?2000
Journal Article Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995–2000 Get access R. Lance Holbert, R. Lance Holbert 1University of Missouri-Columbia 3All correspondence should be addressed to the first author at 115 Switzler Hall, Columbia, MO 65211 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael T. Stephenson Michael T. Stephenson 2Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Sensation seeking, perceived message sensation value, personal involvement, and processing of anti-marijuana PSAs
Drug prevention research has demonstrated the effectiveness of high sensation value messages in influencing drug-related attitudes and behaviors of high sensation seekers (HSS). While there is insight into what kinds of messages are most effective in persuading HSS, we have much less understanding of the cognitive and affective processes which lead to such outcomes. This study assessed the influence of perceived message sensation value and person…
Testing the mediating role of cognitive responses in the elaboration likelihood model
Cognitive response theories such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) have been criticized for lacking appropriate and rigorous empirical testing. As a result, the ELM in particular has little support for the proposed causal mechanism, cognitive responses, as a mediating variable between messages and attitude change. Using argument quality and source credibility manipulations, this investigation examines several causal models to assess the r…
Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995?2000
Journal Article Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995–2000 Get access R. Lance Holbert, R. Lance Holbert 1University of Missouri-Columbia 3All correspondence should be addressed to the first author at 115 Switzler Hall, Columbia, MO 65211 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael T. Stephenson Michael T. Stephenson 2Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration
The present investigation sought to advance Psychological Reactance Theory (PRT) by examining whether trait reactance and sensation seeking influence the magnitude of a perceived threat, state reactance, and reactance restoration. Results revealed that high trait reactant (HTR) and low trait reactant (LTR) individuals and high sensation seekers (HSS) and low sensation seekers (LSS) processed persuasive messages similarly, adding credibility to re…
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
Examining Adolescents' Responses to Antimarijuana PSAs
The research reported here investigated sensation seeking as a moderating variable of 368 adolescents' reactions to antimarijuana public service announcements. Participants rated the perceived message sensation value of 3 antimarijuana TV ads, their processing of the consequences of marijuana use, their affective responses to the ads, and antimarijuana attitudes. Two structural equation models—1 for high sensation seekers and the other for low se…
Sensation seeking, perceived message sensation value, personal involvement, and processing of anti-marijuana PSAs
Drug prevention research has demonstrated the effectiveness of high sensation value messages in influencing drug-related attitudes and behaviors of high sensation seekers (HSS). While there is insight into what kinds of messages are most effective in persuading HSS, we have much less understanding of the cognitive and affective processes which lead to such outcomes. This study assessed the influence of perceived message sensation value and person…
Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Marijuana Initiative Campaign on High-Sensation-Seeking Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effects of the Marijuana Initiative portion of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign on high-sensation-seeking and low-sensation-seeking adolescents. Methods. Personal interviews were conducted via laptop computers with independent monthly random samples of 100 youths from the same age cohort in each of 2 moderate-sized communities over 48 months (April 1999–March 2003) o…
Testing the mediating role of cognitive responses in the elaboration likelihood model
Cognitive response theories such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) have been criticized for lacking appropriate and rigorous empirical testing. As a result, the ELM in particular has little support for the proposed causal mechanism, cognitive responses, as a mediating variable between messages and attitude change. Using argument quality and source credibility manipulations, this investigation examines several causal models to assess the r…
Sensation seeking, perceived message sensation value, personal involvement, and processing of anti-marijuana PSAs
Drug prevention research has demonstrated the effectiveness of high sensation value messages in influencing drug-related attitudes and behaviors of high sensation seekers (HSS). While there is insight into what kinds of messages are most effective in persuading HSS, we have much less understanding of the cognitive and affective processes which lead to such outcomes. This study assessed the influence of perceived message sensation value and person…
Testing the mediating role of cognitive responses in the elaboration likelihood model
Cognitive response theories such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) have been criticized for lacking appropriate and rigorous empirical testing. As a result, the ELM in particular has little support for the proposed causal mechanism, cognitive responses, as a mediating variable between messages and attitude change. Using argument quality and source credibility manipulations, this investigation examines several causal models to assess the r…
Reliability and validity of a brief measure of sensation seeking
Effects of Watching Primary Debates in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign
This essay reports the results of 2 studies measuring the effects of watching U.S. presidential primary debates. Using a pretest-posttest design, participants watched either a Republican (October 22, 1999) or a Democratic (October 27, 1999) New Hampshire primary debate. Those who watched each debate learned more about the candidates' policies, formed evaluations of candidates who were less well-known, and changed their evaluations of better known…
Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995?2000
Journal Article Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995–2000 Get access R. Lance Holbert, R. Lance Holbert 1University of Missouri-Columbia 3All correspondence should be addressed to the first author at 115 Switzler Hall, Columbia, MO 65211 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael T. Stephenson Michael T. Stephenson 2Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
A Monte Carlo Simulation of Observable Versus Latent Variable Structural Equation Modeling Techniques
In this study, three approaches commonly used by communication scientists to specify structural relationships using full-information maximum likelihood structural equation modeling are investigated. Specifically, a simulation study using Monte Carlo techniques was conducted to compare the structural paths generated by each of the three structural equation model types. Two of the three approaches utilized forms of latent variable modeling, and the…
The Importance of Indirect Effects in Media Effects Research
This essay addresses the need for media effects researchers to decompose their structural equation models. We highlight the importance of studying specific indirect effects within a conditional effects framework and discuss how the lack of analysis of this type of effect in structural equation modeling does not fit well with the discipline's theoretical foundations. We summarize several classes of mediation formulas and make recommendations for t…
Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveys
Mass Media Strategies Targeting High Sensation Seekers
Mass mediated anti-drug campaigns aimed at high sensation seekers are effective tools for drug prevention
Examining Adolescents' Responses to Antimarijuana PSAs
The research reported here investigated sensation seeking as a moderating variable of 368 adolescents' reactions to antimarijuana public service announcements. Participants rated the perceived message sensation value of 3 antimarijuana TV ads, their processing of the consequences of marijuana use, their affective responses to the ads, and antimarijuana attitudes. Two structural equation models—1 for high sensation seekers and the other for low se…
Sensation Seeking, the Activation Model, and Mass Media Health Campaigns
Journal Article Sensation Seeking, the Activation Model, and Mass Media Health Campaigns: Current Findings and Future Directions for Cancer Communication Get access Michael T. Stephenson, Michael T. Stephenson 1Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brian G. Southwell Brian G. Southwell 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication, …
Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation
Research on organ donation suggests a strong association between family discussions about the issue and final organ donor status. However, very few studies have examined the factors that influence individuals’ willingness to talk directly to their family about this topic or the impact of these discussions. This investigation provides a partial test of a newly developed theory of information management to better understand the processes of family …
Further Evidence That Psychological Reactance Can Be Modeled as a Combination of Anger and Negative Cognitions
The primary objective of this investigation was to validate the recent operationalization of state reactance as a latent construct comprised of both affective and cognitive components. In addition to testing the operationalization of reactance, the authors tested the conceptual coherence of this construct by examining its association with threat-to-choice perceptions and ad persuasiveness of condom ads. Across seven condom television ads, the aut…
Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Marijuana Initiative Campaign on High-Sensation-Seeking Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effects of the Marijuana Initiative portion of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign on high-sensation-seeking and low-sensation-seeking adolescents. Methods. Personal interviews were conducted via laptop computers with independent monthly random samples of 100 youths from the same age cohort in each of 2 moderate-sized communities over 48 months (April 1999–March 2003) o…
Facts versus `Feelings
Researchers are already aware that decision making about health issues is not necessarily driven by rational or cognitive-based decision-making processes. This appears to be especially true for the decision to donate organs. Although hints about what is actually driving the decision-making process are scattered throughout the literature, noncognitive factors have not been tested systematically. Structural equation modeling of data gathered from 4…
Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration
The present investigation sought to advance Psychological Reactance Theory (PRT) by examining whether trait reactance and sensation seeking influence the magnitude of a perceived threat, state reactance, and reactance restoration. Results revealed that high trait reactant (HTR) and low trait reactant (LTR) individuals and high sensation seekers (HSS) and low sensation seekers (LSS) processed persuasive messages similarly, adding credibility to re…
Impulsivity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between BIS/BAS and Risky Health Behaviors
Several theorists have suggested that impulsivity can be understood as a joint function of the behavioral approach (BAS) and behavioral inhibition systems (BIS). After resolving questions concerning the measurement of impulsivity and BAS, this study examined the relationships among risky health behaviors, impulsivity, BIS, and BAS. Utilizing a sample of undergraduates (N=904), a structural model was tested in which BAS and BIS predicted impulsivi…
Impulsivity Partially Mediates the Relationship Between BIS/BAS and Risky Health Behaviors
Several theorists have suggested that impulsivity can be understood as a joint function of the behavioral approach (BAS) and behavioral inhibition systems (BIS). After resolving questions concerning the measurement of impulsivity and BAS, this study examined the relationships among risky health behaviors, impulsivity, BIS, and BAS. Utilizing a sample of undergraduates (N = 904), a structural model was tested in which BAS and BIS predicted impulsi…
Advancing Health Communication Research
Group-based assessments and L2 interactional competence
Although interaction-based research has investigated various second language (L2) testing formats, less attention has been given to group-based assessments compared to the more widely studied oral proficiency interview (OPI) and paired L2 assessment formats. The current study draws upon around 7 h of video-recorded group-based assessments at a university-affiliated higher education (HE) institution in the UK. During these assessments, test-takers…
Psychology (19 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (8 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Sensation Seeking (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Media Influence and Health (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Structural equation modeling (5 obras)