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Social Presence, Negative Emotions, and Self-Protective Behavioral Intentions of Nonsmokers in Response to Secondhand Smoking in Virtual Reality: Quasi-Experimental Design
Social Presence, Negative Emotions and Self-protective Behavioral Intentions of Nonsmokers in Response to Second-hand Smoking in Virtual Reality: a Quasi Experimental Design
Miao Liu;
Yicheng Zhu;
Zihan Xu;
Sitong Meng
ABSTRACT
Background:
The applications of virtual reality in healthcare grows rapidly in China, where around half of the population have direct exposure to secondhand smoke.
Objective:
In a simulated environment of exposure to second-hand smoke, the current study explores the emotional and behavioral responses to enhanced social presence brought by virtual reality in contrast to flatscreen videos.
Methods:
2 (VR vs. flatscreen) X 2 (high threat vs. low threat) experimental design.
Results:
the path model finds that both factors strongly influence social presence, which directly affects emotional responses (anger, disgust, and fear) and indirectly influences behavioral inten-tions (interfere and evade) towards second-hand smoking.
Conclusions:
These results suggested that VR environment could be a better stimulator of anti-secondhand smoke emotions and behaviors than flatscreen videos.
Citation
Please cite as:
Liu M, Zhu Y, Xu Z, Meng S
Social Presence, Negative Emotions, and Self-Protective Behavioral Intentions of Nonsmokers in Response to Secondhand Smoking in Virtual Reality: Quasi-Experimental Design