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To Picture or Not to Picture: Levels of Erotophobia and Breast Self‐Examination Brochure Techniques 1
Author(s) -
Labranche Eric R.,
HelwegLarsen Marie,
Byrd Charles E.,
Choquette Robert A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01648.x
Subject(s) - brochure , breast self examination , psychology , social psychology , medicine , breast cancer , art , literature , poetry , cancer , digital library
People's level of erotophobia influences their acceptance of sexually related situations, including the likelihood of engaging in sexually related health care such as breast self‐examinations (BSE). Female college students ( n = 61) completed a measure of erotophobia and read a BSE brochure that either did or did not contain instructional photographs showing a woman's breasts. As hypothesized when the brochure contained photographs, women high in erotophobia felt less competent in giving themselves BSE and were less likely to claim that they did things to improve their health. When the brochure contained no photographs, women low in erotophobia thought that the information was easier to understand and that BSE was more important.