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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Previous research indicates that decision makers are often reluctant to use potentially beneficial multi-criteria decision support systems (MCDSS). Prior research has not examined the specific impact of preference elicitation techniques on user acceptance of MCDSS. The present research begins to fill this gap by examining the effect on users' MCDSS evaluations of two commonly used preference elicitation techniques, absolute measurement and pairwise comparisons, while holding constant all other aspects of the MCDSS and decision making task. Experimental results (N=153) indicate that users consider MCDSS with pairwise comparisons to be higher in decisional conflict, more effortful, less accurate, and overall less desirable to use than MCDSS with absolute measurements. Thus, any potential normative superiority of a preference elicitation technique must be balanced against its potentially adverse effects on user acceptance of the MCDSS within which it is employed. We present a research agenda for exploring the tradeoffs between objective validity and user acceptance in the design of decision analysis tools. .
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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Stage of change and decisional balance have been used to understand motivation for changes in health behavior. This study examined relationships between these constructs in a sample of 119 alcohol-dependent women presenting for alcohol treatment. Before treatment, participants completed measures of readiness to change and perceived benefits and costs of changing drinking behavior. Results showed that individuals who exhibited greater readiness to change perceived more advantages and fewer disadvantages of changing their drinking behavior. This was true for the scale scores of Precontemplation and Action on the Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RCQ), but Contemplation scale scores were unrelated to decisional balance variables. When analyzed by stage, individuals in Action reported more benefits relative to costs than individuals in Contemplation. Thus, the constructs of stage of change and decisional balance appear to be related and may prove to be useful in enhancing motivation in alcohol-dependent women. .
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