caa a22 4500 475738748 CHVBK 20180406123453.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005468220077 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005468220077 Bulimia Interventions via Interpersonal Influence: The Role of Threat and Efficacy in Persuading Bulimics to Seek Help [Elektronische Daten] [Jodi Smalec, Renee Klingle] The causes and medical consequences of bulimia are well established in the literature, yet prevalence rates for bulimia continue to be quite high. Eating disorder books and popular magazines have offered a variety of ways in which individuals can communicatively influence bulimics to seek the help they need to treat their disorder. Unfortunately, many of the recommended influence strategies have been atheoretically derived and sorely lack empirical data affirming their effectiveness. The present study investigates and empirically tests the effectiveness of interpersonal intervention messages aimed at getting bulimic individuals to seek medical help. Several theoretical perspectives, as they relate to messages of threat and efficacy, were used to predict the effects of bulimics' threat and efficacy perceptions on message acceptance and message rejection. A main and positive effect for efficacy was found on message acceptance. A threat by efficacy interaction on message acceptance was partially supported for both cognitive and behavioral message acceptance. The threat by efficacy interaction was not significant for message rejection. Overall, this study confirmed the notion that high levels of both threat and efficacy are necessary to convince bulimic individuals to seek help. These findings can be used to aid concerned individuals in their quest to intervene and to get bulimics to seek out the necessary medical assistance and support. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 bulimia nationallicence bulimia interventions nationallicence interpersonal influence nationallicence threat nationallicence efficacy nationallicence Smalec Jodi University of Hawaii, Manoa aut Klingle Renee University of Hawaii, Manoa aut Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/1(2000-02-01), 37-57 0160-7715 23:1<37 2000 23 10865 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005468220077 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005468220077 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smalec Jodi University of Hawaii, Manoa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klingle Renee University of Hawaii, Manoa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/1(2000-02-01), 37-57 0160-7715 23:1<37 2000 23 10865 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer