title: Anticipated emotions and personal experience for predicting behavioral intentions and behavioral expectations.
abstract: We tested how anticipated emotions interact with personal experience in risk behavior to improve predictions from TPB on behavioral intention (BI) and behavioral expectation (BE) for sex without condom (Study 1) and excessive drinking (Study 2). In the moderate-high experience group, anticipated emotional profiles (AEPs) improve TPB prediction from 28% to 45% in the case of BI and from 19% to 40% in that of BE in relation to sexual risk behavior (Study 1), and from 23% to 36% in the case of BI and from 17% to 31% in that of BE in relation to binge drinking (Study 2). However, in the low-experience group (Study 2) AEPs improve TPB predictions for BI (12% to 34%) but not for BE, showing that in less experienced people BI and BE are not equivalent: anticipated emotions have different relevance in their prediction. These results were replicated using a general negative anticipated emotion index (averaging emotional categories).
authors: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Psicología Social, Facultad de Psicología, C/Ivan Pavlov, 6, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. pilar.carrera@uam.es
authors: Pilar
authors: P
authors: Carrera
authors: Amparo
authors: A
authors: Caballero
authors: Dolores
authors: D
authors: Muñoz
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Oceja
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology*; D059031:Anticipation, Psychological; D017280:Condoms; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012925:Social Conformity; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult