ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The More Insufficient, the More Avoidance? Cognitive and Affective Factors that Relates to Information Behaviours in Acute Risks.
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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
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- When breast cancer patients participate in ritual interactive activities: the mechanism of perceived emotional synchrony on health information avoidance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring psychological variables in users' health information-seeking behavior: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Review
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- Information avoidance in the age of COVID-19: A meta-analysis.Information processing & management · 2023Article
- Exploring the roles of fear and powerlessness in the relationship between perceived risk of the COVID-19 pandemic and information-avoidance behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
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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