On the Value of Knowing One's Likes and Dislikes: Attitude Accessibility, Stress, and Health in College
基于实验室研究，假设大学新生了解自己对学业相关问题的好恶（态度可及性）有助于在新环境中保持健康。前瞻性研究发现，态度可及性可缓冲压力对健康的不良影响，尤其对初始健康较好的学生效果更明显。
On the basis of laboratory research indicating that accessible attitudes ease decision making we hypothesized that freshmen who enter college knowing their likes and dislikes regarding academically relevant issues may experience better health in this new life setting To test this hypothesis, we conducted a prospective study in which students completed self-report inventories of negative life events and mental and physical health at two points in time The accessibility of attitudes toward academically relevant issues was assessed in the initial session Regression analyses revealed three-way interactions between attitude accessibility, stress (as indexed by the number of negative life events), and initial health status when predicting health scores at Time 2 For students with relatively good initial health, the generally positive relation between stress and illness was buffered by the possession of accessible attitudes For students with relatively poor initial health, recovery was generally greater among those experiencing less stress, especially as attitude accessibility increased