Attitudes Regarding Messages
A series of 4 (Type of Message Personalization: schema-
matched/personalized behavioral feedback/generalizedsocial norms advertising/control)
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2 (Gender: male/female)
between-subjects ANOVAs were performed on three key
items assessing participants’ attitudes regarding the respon-
sible drinking message. There were no interactions between
Type of Message Personalization and Gender for any of
the variables. Consistent with the hypothesis, participants
had more favorable attitudes toward the more personalized
approaches (schema-matched and personalized behavioral
feedback) than the more common other-oriented approach
(generalized social norms advertising) as well as the control.
In addition, female students had more favorable attitudes
toward the messages than did male students.
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Covarying
out students’ typical drinking behavior had no impact on
the message personalization effects discussed below. All
p
s were significant at the .05 level or smaller using LSD
(Least Significant Differences) post hoc comparisons