Time Preferences and Preventive Health Behavior

Gretchen B. Chapman · Elliot J. Coups

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BACKGROUND: Many preventive health behaviors involve immediate costs and delayed benefits. Time preference is the extent to which decision makers value future outcomes relative to immediate ones. Consequently, people with future-oriented time preferences should be more likely to adopt preventive measures. The relationship between time preferences and acceptance of a free influenza vaccination was examined. SAMPLE: The participants were 412 corporate employees who were offered free influenza vaccinations at their workplace. MEASURES: Participants' time preferences were measured in each of two domains: money and health. They also reported on whether they had accepted the influenza vaccination and their beliefs and attitudes about the vaccine. RESULTS: There was a small (OR = 2.38) relationship of vaccination acceptance to monetary time preferences but not to the health time-preference measures. Other variables, such as perceived effectiveness of the vaccine, were more predictive. CONCLUSION: This study provides some evidence of a small relationship between time preferences and preventive health behavior.

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