This research presents a new scale, the health regulatory focus scale, which measures an individual's tendency to use promotion or prevention strategies in the pursuit of health goals. We conducted five studies in France to develop the scale which is made up of two subscales for prevention and...

This article aims at synthesizing the body of research that deals with regulatory focus, a concept that has captured the attention of a growing number of marketing researchers in the last few years, particularly because of the new perspective it brings to motivation. After introducing Higgins's...