Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games
Date Submitted: Feb 3, 2023
Date Accepted: Aug 26, 2023
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The Examination of Self-protective Behavioral Intentions of Nonsmokers in Response to Second-hand Smoking in Virtual Reality: Social Presence and Negative Emotions as Underlying Mechanism
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.
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