Table 2 Characteristics of Vignette
From: Changing attitudes towards obesity – results from a survey experiment
Social environmental | Individual behavior | Genetics | Neutral Vignette | p value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vignette remembered correctly | 0.001 | ||||
Yes (%) | 78.4 | 88.2 | 92.2 | n/a | |
Vignette biased and inaccurate | 0.050 | ||||
Strongly agree, (%) | 10.3 | 3.7 | 6.9 | 7.1 | |
Agree (%) | 25.7 | 23.0 | 37.7 | 27.0 | |
Disagree (%) | 30.9 | 35.6 | 33.9 | 36.2 | |
Strongly disagree (%) | 33.1 | 37.8 | 21.5 | 29.8 | |
Mean, SD | 2.13, 0.99 | 1.93, 0.87 | 2.30, 0.89 | 2.11, 0.92 | 0.012a |
Vignette content | 0.001 | ||||
Strongly overemphasized (%) | 12.6 | 5.2 | 15.4 | n/a | |
Somewhat overemphasized (%) | 23.7 | 11.2 | 35.9 | n/a | |
Right amount of emphasis (%) | 56.3 | 69.4 | 45.4 | n/a | |
Somewhat underemphasized (%) | 6.7 | 11.2 | 2.3 | n/a | |
Strongly underemphasized (%) | 0.7 | 3.0 | 1.5 | n/a | |
Mean, SD | 3.41, 0.82 | 3.04, 0.74 | 3.61, 0.83 | n/a | <0.001b |
Personal beliefs across vignettes | 0.050 | ||||
Social environmental (%) | 16.9 | 10.4 | 12.3 | 13.4 | |
Individual Behavior (%) | 70.6 | 80.7 | 66.2 | 70.4 | |
Genetics (%) | 12.5 | 8.9 | 21.5 | 16.2 | |