You Brought it on Yourself: The Joint Effects of Message Type, Stigma, and Responsibility Attribution on Attitudes Toward Medical Cannabis

Lewis, Nehama; Sznitman, Sharon R.

doi:10.1111/jcom.12287

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“…A research indicates that information via videos generated more favorable attitudes toward medicinal cannabis users. 26 In addition, in this study it is observed that the participants who saw narratives in which the protagonist had a stigmatized disease and was responsible for contracting his disease had more negative attitudes towards medicinal marijuana. The above can generate reflections on the information strategies that can be used to reduce the stigma towards people who use drugs.…”

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confidence: 63%

Attitudes Towards People With Problematic Drug Use in the City of Loja, Ecuador

Delgado

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2019

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Objective: analyze attitudes toward people with problematic drug use in the city of Loja, Ecuador. Method: a quantitative, cross-sectional, preliminary study using survey methodology aimed at collecting data on attitudes towards people with problematic drug use by residents in the city of Loja, Ecuador. The sample size is 121 individuals. This study is part of a multi-center investigation that involves 10 universities and a National Drug Council in Latin America. Results: the results revealed that attitudes toward people with problematic uses of alcohol are positive while attitudes toward people with problematic uses of other drugs such as marijuana and cocaine are ambivalent. It also shows that ambivalence prevails according to the majority of socio-demographic variables, differing in the masculine gender, people in the range of 18-29 years; those who lives with their partner; those who have a higher education than high school who have a positive attitude towards people with problematic uses of alcohol. And the scale that presents the greatest difficulties is the area of personal contact with negative attitudes towards the users of marijuana and cocaine. Conclusion: it is vital to continue researching about stigma, social distance and attitudes towards people who use drugs in the Ecuadorian context, its impact on treatment and social integration and the most appropriate information strategies to avoid stigma.

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confidence: 63%

Attitudes Towards People With Problematic Drug Use in the City of Loja, Ecuador

Delgado

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2019

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“…Along this line, companies have traditionally applied two opposite types of discourses to their corporate communications; they present messages that are mostly expositive or narrative in character [9,10]. Expositive (semantic, rational, or nonnarrative) perspectives on communication include "self-evident propositions, demonstrations, proofs, and verbal expressions of certain and probable knowing" [7].…”

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“…Thus, exposition mainly bases on the description of rational arguments, statistics, numbers, names, and facts [12]. Expositive messages do not go any deeper into the reality behind those numbers and they avoid emotional connotations as much as possible [9]. In numerous occasions, this approach has been referred to as informational communication [15].…”

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“…For instance, an interesting line of research has focused on exploring the effect that different discourse strategies have on audiences when exposed to communication [6][7][8]. Scholars have frequently discussed the advantages and disadvantages of designing messages based on expositive (semantic or rational) or narrative (i.e., storytelling) discourses [9,10]. Based on the premises of the narrative paradigm theory (NPT) [11], scholars have mostly defended that discourse will always tell a story and insofar as it invites an audience to believe it or to act on it, the narrative paradigm and its attendant logic, narrative rationality, are available for (better) interpretation and assessment.…”

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Effects of the Type of CSR Discourse for Utilitarian and Hedonic Services

2020

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In a context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication, we explore whether the use of expositive versus narrative discourses interacts with the type of service commercialized by the company (utilitarian vs. hedonic) to determine consumer perceptions and responses to corporate communication. Our main proposal is that, as representative examples of utilitarian services, banking companies would benefit significantly from communicating their CSR efforts with expositive discourses, whereas narrative discourses would be more adequate for hedonic services (e.g., catering). To test the research hypotheses, we use a 2 (expositive/narrative discourse) x 2 (utilitarian/hedonic service) between-subjects experimental design where we expose 302 consumers to different combinations of CSR messages and we evaluate changes in their message attributions and internal and external responses to them. The findings show that the interaction effect is significant and it works in the expected direction for issue importance, CSR fit, and CSR attributions. However, for CSR impact, attitude, trust, purchase, and advocacy intentions, the findings suggest that narrative discourses work better than expositive discourses both for utilitarian and hedonic services. No significant differences between types of discourses are observed for CSR motives, CSR commitment, and C-C identification and the interaction effect is also not significant for these variables.

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“…Research has explored the potential persuasive and positive impacts of narratives, such as reducing prejudice (Paluck, 2009), increasing life satisfaction (Gabriel & Young, 2011), changing attitudes (e.g. Wojcieszak & Kim, 2016;Lewis & Sznitman, 2017), altering behavioural intentions (Murphy, Frank, Chatterjee & Baezconde-Garbanati, 2013), encouraging engagement with global issues (Chattoo & Feldman, 2017) and increasing social skills (Mar & Oatley, 2008). Of more direct relevance to the current study, a growing body of research, drawn from a variety of disciplines including psychology, communications, media studies, and literary studies, has suggested that experiencing narratives may (under some conditions) facilitate changes in empathy (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%