ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Public's Risk Information Seeking and Avoidance in China During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Outbreak.
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- Prevalence and predictors of medical information avoidance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of risk perception on emergency information seeking behavior: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Research on the Process and Influencing Factors of Online Diabetes Information Users' Avoidance Behavior: A Qualitative Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Seeking Intention on COVID-19 Risk Information: A Cross-Sectional Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Article
- Information avoidance in the age of COVID-19: A meta-analysis.Information processing & management · 2023Article
- How do online users perceive health risks during public health emergencies? Empirical evidence from China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Public and Private Information Sharing under "New Normal" of COVID-19: Understanding the Roles of Habit and Outcome Expectation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Effects of Information-Seeking Behaviors on Risk Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Correlational Survey.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
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Abstract
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.
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