Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and effects on behavior at follow-up by condition.
| Standard QBE |
Dissonance-enhanced QBE |
Control group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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N = 502 |
N = 512 |
N = 520 |
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| Variables1 | N | M (or %) | N | M (or %) | n | M (or %) |
| Demographic characteristics1 | ||||||
| Age | 502 | 32.6 | 512 | 31.3 | 520 | 31.4 |
| Gender (%) | ||||||
| Male | 244 | 48.6 | 238 | 46.5 | 272 | 52.3 |
| Female | 251 | 50.0 | 268 | 52.3 | 243 | 46.7 |
| Non-binary | 7 | 1.4 | 6 | 1.2 | 5 | 1.0 |
| Ethnicity (%) | ||||||
| Non-Caucasian | 130 | 25.9 | 149 | 29.1 | 152 | 29.2 |
| Caucasian | 372 | 74.1 | 363 | 70.9 | 368 | 70.8 |
| Education (%) | ||||||
| Below undergraduate degree | 208 | 41.4 | 224 | 43.8 | 205 | 39.4 |
| Undergraduate degree/above | 294 | 58.6 | 288 | 56.3 | 315 | 60.6 |
| Employment (%) | ||||||
| Full/part time employment | 328 | 65.3 | 324 | 63.3 | 338 | 65.0 |
| Full/part time student | 90 | 17.9 | 104 | 20.3 | 93 | 17.9 |
| Not currently working | 84 | 16.7 | 84 | 16.4 | 89 | 17.1 |
| Effects on behavior | ||||||
| Health-risk behaviors | 0.01 (0.47)ab | −0.04 (0.48)a | 0.04 (0.51)b | |||
| Health-protective behaviors | −0.003 (0.63)b | 0.08 (0.63)a | −0.08 (0.62)b | |||
Note. Means with different superscripts differ significantly at p < .05. The difference between the QBE-only and QBE plus dissonance condition is marginally significant (p = .07) for health-risk behaviors.
1
There were no significant differences between conditions on demographic variables.