TY - JOUR
T1 - Information Seeking Behaviors and Intentions in Response to Environmental Health Risk Messages
T2 - A Test of A Reduced Risk Information Seeking Model
AU - Hovick, Shelly R.
AU - Bigsby, Elisabeth
AU - Wilson, Sam R.
AU - Thomas, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study tests the effects of environmental health risk messages on perceived risk, information needs and decisions to seek information, testing a reduced risk information seeking and processing model (R-RISP). Participants (N = 1,823) were randomized to one of three risk conditions (arsenic, bisphenol A [BPA] or volatile organic compounds [VOCs]) and one of the three message conditions (high threat, low threat or no message); participants in the high and low threat message conditions were also randomly assigned to a seeking cue to action condition (with or without seeking cue). Overall, the results support the R-RISP model, demonstrating the importance of current knowledge perceptions and informational subjective norms in information acquisition decisions. In addition, the results also provide initial evidence that environmental health risk messages can prompt information seeking and increase intentions to seek information in the future. Avenues for future research are discussed.
AB - This study tests the effects of environmental health risk messages on perceived risk, information needs and decisions to seek information, testing a reduced risk information seeking and processing model (R-RISP). Participants (N = 1,823) were randomized to one of three risk conditions (arsenic, bisphenol A [BPA] or volatile organic compounds [VOCs]) and one of the three message conditions (high threat, low threat or no message); participants in the high and low threat message conditions were also randomly assigned to a seeking cue to action condition (with or without seeking cue). Overall, the results support the R-RISP model, demonstrating the importance of current knowledge perceptions and informational subjective norms in information acquisition decisions. In addition, the results also provide initial evidence that environmental health risk messages can prompt information seeking and increase intentions to seek information in the future. Avenues for future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/10410236.2020.1804139
DO - 10.1080/10410236.2020.1804139
M3 - Article
C2 - 32885676
AN - SCOPUS:85090208024
VL - 36
SP - 1889
EP - 1897
JO - Health Communication
JF - Health Communication
SN - 1041-0236
IS - 14
ER -