ArticleComputers in human behavior2021
Factors affecting individual online rumor sharing behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- People with High Perceived Infectability Are More Likely to Spread Rumors in the Context of COVID-19: A Behavioral Immune System Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- How local outbreak of COVID-19 affect the risk of internet public opinion: A Chinese social media case study.Technology in society · 2022Article
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- Trust in government buffers the negative effect of rumor exposure on people's emotions.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Online information analysis on pancreatic cancer in Korea using structural topic model.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Effects of Personality Traits on Online Rumor Sharing: The Mediating Role of Fear of COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Impact of Government Social Media Information Quality on Public Panic During the Infodemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
With the outbreak of COVID-19, online sharing of rumors about the disease is of growing concern worldwide. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, this study aims to explore the impacts of peer condition and peer communication on fear of COVID-19, and the impact of fear of COVID-19 on online rumor sharing behavior, by considering the contingency effect of health self-efficacy. Data from 1167 respondents to an online survey in China were adopted to test our research model. The results indicate that peer communication and peer condition induce fear of COVID-19, and fear of COVID-19 results in online rumor sharing. Fear of COVID-19 mediates the effects of peer communication and peer condition on online rumor sharing. Health self-efficacy alleviates the positive effect of peer communication on fear of COVID-19, and the positive effect of fear of COVID-19 on online rumor sharing. This study advances the literature on online rumor sharing and S-O-R, and provides practical implications to social media users and governments.
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