Avoiding Trouble: Exploring Environmental Risk Information Avoidance Intentions.

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Ann Kahlor ◽  
Hilary Clement Olson ◽  
Arthur B. Markman ◽  
Wan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Induced Earthquakes ◽  
Perceived Knowledge ◽  
Information Avoidance ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Risk Research ◽  
Cognitive Information

This study explores predictors of risk information avoidance intentions in the context of a novel environmental threat—induced earthquakes in Texas. Given the paucity of research on risk information avoidance, this work was guided by a cognitive information behavior model. Survey data ( N = 541) from a random sample of Texas adults allowed us to explore these variables. While previous research has shown risk information seeking intentions to be robustly guided by a number of constructs, our current data suggest that risk information avoidance intentions may be more narrowly predicated on risk information avoidance-related subjective norms, attitudes, and perceived knowledge insufficiency. We discuss these findings and suggest avenues for future environmental risk research.

Increasing Information Seeking About Antibiotic Risks: Testing a Clinical Intervention Message Using the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-243
Author(s):  
David L. Brinker ◽  
Yanmengqian Zhou ◽  
Michelle L. Acevedo Callejas ◽  
Erina L. MacGeorge
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Antibiotic Stewardship ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Information Avoidance ◽  
College Age ◽  
Intervention Message

We employed the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model to inform the design of antibiotic stewardship messages aiming at influencing intentions to seek or avoid antibiotic risk information. College-age respondents ( N = 400) from a national sample viewed one of three versions of a RISP-informed message or no message (control group). Relative to the control group, all RISP-informed messages increased perceptions of information insufficiency. The most complete version of the RISP-informed message increased severity perceptions and information seeking intention and decreased information avoidance intention. Approaches to designing antibiotic stewardship messages are recommended accordingly.

Environmental Risk Information Seeking: The Differential Roles of Anxiety and Hopelessness

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 894-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay D. Hmielowski ◽  
Rebecca Donaway ◽  
Meredith Y. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Risk Information

Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Deline ◽  
Lee Ann Kahlor
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Information Avoidance

Abstract Risk information avoidance is widespread, and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres. Disciplines from communication to psychology have been exploring the avoidance phenomena for decades, yet we lack a unifying theoretical model to understand it. To develop such a model, we start with the planned risk information-seeking model (PRISM) and explore its tenets, and related research, as they apply to information avoidance. We end with a theoretically sound planned risk information avoidance (PRIA) model and accompanying propositions in three overarching areas: cognitive, affective and socio-cultural. This model shows promise in advancing our collective understanding of the PRIA phenomenon.

scholarly journals The Public's Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance in China During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Liu ◽  
You Chen ◽  
Dan Shi ◽  
Tingwu Yan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Avoidance ◽  
Risk Response ◽  
High Level

This study uses the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM) to estimate the public's information seeking and avoidance intentions during the COVID-19 outbreak based on an online sample of 1031 Chinese adults and provides support for the applicability of PRISM framework in the situation of a novel high-level risk. The results indicate that information seeking is primarily directed by informational subjective norms (ISN) and perceived seeking control (PSC), while the main predictors of information avoidance include ISN and attitude toward seeking. Because ISN are the strongest predictor of both information seeking and avoidance, the way the public copes with COVID-19 information may be strongly affected by individuals' social environment. Furthermore, a significant relationship between risk perception and affective risk response is identified. Our results also indicate that people who perceive greater knowledge of COVID-19 are more likely to report greater knowledge insufficiency, which results in less information avoidance.

How beliefs about weight malleability and risk perceptions for obesity influence parents’ information seeking and feeding

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110614
Author(s):  
Charlotte J Hagerman ◽  
Rebecca A Ferrer ◽  
Susan Persky
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Junk Food ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Child Feeding

This study surveyed 185 parents to determine whether their perceived risk of their child developing obesity and their implicit theories about the malleability of weight independently and/or interactively predict their child-feeding and pursuit of child-related obesity risk information. Higher risk perceptions were associated with healthier feeding intentions and more information seeking. More incremental (malleable) beliefs predicted healthier feeding intentions and greater pursuit of environmental, but not genetic, information. Contrary to hypotheses, the influence of implicit theories and risk perceptions were primarily independent; however, more incremental beliefs predicted less “junk food” feeding among only parents with lower perceived risk.

scholarly journals Financial risk information avoidance

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 521-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Blajer-Gołębiewska ◽  
Dagmara Wach ◽  
Maciej Kos
Keyword(s):  
Financial Risk ◽  
Risk Information ◽  
Information Avoidance

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuguang Zhao ◽  
Yiming Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Information Avoidance ◽  
Cognitive And Affective Factors ◽  
The Relationship

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.

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