Page, G. Ryan, Quinlan, Philip Thomas orcid.org/0000-0002-8847-6390, Lecci, Len et al. (1 more author) (2024) Psychological Value Theory:Predicting Health-Seeking Behavior from Symptom Perception. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. ISSN 1573-3521
Abstract
We recruit Psychological Value Theory (PVT) to understand how symptom value influences health-seeking decisions. Estimates of the Psychological Value of relief from a particular symptom were previously collected and used to predict the speed of participants’ decision and the choice they make in three discrete choice experiments. Experiment 1 presented participants with a scenario and asked them to identify which of two symptoms they would seek healthcare services to treat. For each participant on every trial, two randomly chosen symptoms were inserted into the scenario. Experiment 2 addressed how the Psychological Value of a group of symptoms is predicted from the individual symptoms. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 using groups of two symptoms, and predicted choice based on three grouping functions. Experiment 3 replicated Experiment 2 using a yes/no task, whereby participants were asked if they would pursue a health care visit for a single set of symptoms. The results showed that PVT accurately predicted speed and choice in all three experiments. The Psychological Value of relief from a symptom was the primary driver of choice along with a response bias in favor of avoiding symptoms labeled “severe.” Health-seeking decisions are well modeled by a general-purpose, value-based computational model (PVT), with the Psychological Value of relief from health symptoms as a primary driver of health-seeking behavior.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the University’s Research Publications and Open Access policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2024 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 24 Dec 2024 00:16 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-024-00531-0 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10865-024-00531-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218794 |