The More Insufficient, the More Avoidance? Cognitive and Affective Factors that Relates to Information Behaviours in Acute Risks

Author:

Zhao Shuguang,Liu Yiming

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between cognitive and affective factors and people's information-seeking and -avoiding behaviours in acute risks with a 1,946-sample online survey conducted in February 2020, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that perceived information insufficiency correlates negatively with information-seeking behaviour and there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between information insufficiency and avoidance behaviour. As for the risk-related cognitive factors, information seeking increases as perceived severity of risks rises, while information avoiding increases as perceived susceptibility rises. Perceived response efficacy positively correlates with information-seeking and negatively with information-avoidance behaviours. Preliminary results also indicated that different affective factors relate to information-seeking and avoidance behaviours differently.

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Subject

General Psychology

Reference47 articles.

1. Preference for information and involvement, information seeking and emotional responses of women undergoing colposcopy;Barsevick;Res. Nurs. Health,1990

2. Avoiding versus seeking: The relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance, and related concepts;Case;J. Med. Libr. Assoc,2005

3. Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion;Chaiken;J. Pers. Soc. Psychol.,1980

4. “Principles of persuasion,”;Chaiken,1996

5. COVID-19 dashboard by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)2020

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3