Table 2.

Correlations Among Risk Perceptions and Dispositional Optimism, and Associations of Risk Perceptions and Dispositional Optimism With Intentions to Learn Genome Sequencing Results

	Absolute risk perceptions	Comparative risk perceptions	Experiential risk perceptions	Dispositional optimism
Absolute risk perceptions		.395**	.315**	−.009
Comparative risk perceptions			.470**	−.114*
Experiential risk perceptions				−.175**
Intentions to learn genome sequencing results
Medically actionable disease	.071	.044	.043	.050
Nonmedically actionable disease	.081†	.033	−.040	.120**
Carrier status	.093*	.075†	.031	.136**
Intentions to use genome sequencing results to change lifestyle/health behaviors
Intentions to use medically actionable disease results	.010	−.034	−.026	.145**
Intentions to use nonmedically actionable disease results	.044	−.051	−.063	.147**
Intentions to use carrier status results	.098*	−.040	−.009	.123**
M (SD)	4.50 (1.02)	4.28 (1.27)	4.01 (1.74)	3.79 (0.74)

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.