A metacognitive approach to reconsidering risk perceptions and uncertainty: understand information seeking during COVID-19. (Special Issue: Communicating risk and uncertainty in the face of COVID-19.)
Science Communication
; 42(5):616-642, 2020.
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in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-1309886
ABSTRACT
The study examined the psychological drivers of information-seeking behaviors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Employing a two-wave (from April 16, 2020, to April 27, 2020) survey design (N = 381), the study confirmed that both risk perceptions and uncertainty were important antecedents to information seeking and that their effects were linked to emotional appraisals of the risk situation. Findings revealed nuanced relationships between these two constructs and emotional appraisals. Danger appraisal was positively associated with perceived susceptibility and susceptibility uncertainty but negatively related to severity uncertainty;hope appraisal depended on the interaction between uncertainty and risk perceptions. Implications of the study findings on risk and health communication were discussed.
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Prognostic study
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English
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Science Communication
Year:
2020
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