Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society

Published:2024-01-20 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0963-6625
Container-title:Public Understanding of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Public Underst Sci

Author:

Kim Jarim¹^ORCID,Lee Jiyeon¹,Baek Jinha¹,Ju Jiyeon¹

Affiliation:

1. Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Abstract

This study examined how uncertainty affects information seeking and avoidance behaviors via information insufficiency in the COVID-19 vaccination context. It also investigated how trust in science, government, and society moderate the effects of information insufficiency. An online experiment with 131 Korean adults showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information seeking intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by science trust and governmental trust. It also showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information avoidance intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by social trust.

Funder

The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Communication

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09636625231217080

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