Information avoidance behavior on social network sites: Information irrelevance, overload, and the moderating role of time pressure

Guo, Yuanyuan; Lü, Zifeng; Kuang, Haibo; Wang, Chaoyou

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102067

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“…The prior studies have confirmed that perceived overload was an important factor that caused users’ negative perception, such as fatigue, regret, technostress, emotional exhaustion, and so on, and then further triggered users’ negative behavior [ 16 , 18 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 ]. However, the existing research mainly focuses on social information system products which are mainly used for entertainment, relaxation, socializing, such as WeChat, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and the research objects are mainly young users.…”

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“…According to the coping model of user adaptation [ 66 ], when the user was threatened by technology, they will take an adaptation strategy to avoid or minimize negative outcomes and unpleasant feelings, such as discontinuance use, absenteeism [ 67 ], information avoidance [ 16 ] and so on. Existing studies have already indicated that psychological stress and fatigue will cause low participation and have a positive effect on users’ resistance activities.…”

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“…(2) Although the researchers have already taken efforts to investigate the various influence factors for elderly user’s mHealth application usage, much less about the overload factor and negative emotional factor. However, these two type inhibiting factors have been found to be the significant influence factors for the information system usage [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ], particularly for the elderly users who are unfamiliar with information technology products, they will be more affected [ 19 ]. These research gaps may hinder our comprehensive understanding of the elderly users’ mHealth application usage and effective preventive measures to facilitate elderly user’s usage.…”

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Examining the Effect of Overload on the MHealth Application Resistance Behavior of Elderly Users: An SOR Perspective

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Aging has increased the burden of social medical care. Mobile health (mHealth) services provide an effective way to alleviate this pressure. However, the actual usage of mHealth services for elderly users is still very low. The extant studies mainly focused on elderly users’ mHealth adoption behavior, but resistance behavior has not been sufficiently explored by previous research. A present study tried to remedy this research gap by examining the effect of overload factors on the mHealth application resistance behavior based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework. The results indicated that information overload and system feature overload of an mHealth application increased the fatigue and technostress of the elderly user, which further increased their resistance behavior. Meanwhile, we integrated the intergeneration support with the SOR model to identify the buffer factor of the elderly user’s resistance behavior. The results showed that intergenerational support not only directly decrease the elderly user’s mHealth application resistance behavior, but also moderates (weaken) the effects of fatigue and technostress on resistance behavior. The present study also provided several valuable theoretical and practical implications.

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“…This waiver demonstrates the passive usage behavior information. Abandonment of information indicates a lack of time, experience, energy and personal interest in the information [11]. Only 23% of respondents took the initiative to re-check the information they get.…”

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Information Anxieties and Information Distrust: The effects of Overload Information about COVID – 19

Ganggi

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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Covid-19 is the world's main focus, so the mass media is competing to provide details information. The amount of information related to Covid-19 in the communities raises information overload. The purpose of the study is to know the effects of overload information about Covid-19 on the information of anxiety and distrust of information about the people of Semarang. This research uses quantitative methods. The samples in this study were one hundred and fifty seven respondents which is acquired using random sampling. The Data in this research was obtained through online questionnaires. Data is presented descriptively because in this study using an open-ended questionnaire. The results showed that overload information about Covid-19 triggers the occurrence of anxiety information. The anxiety of the information itself has an impact on the rise of laziness to searching information and fatigue of information, where both lead to information distrust.

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“…Some scholars speak of herd behavior or fashion in this context (Asch 1952;1956;Rafaat et al 2009). Moreover, fears of unpleasant consequences can lead people to voluntarily refrain from freely available information (information avoidance; Golman et al 2017;Guo et al 2020). For example, upcoming preventive health check-ups often cause discomfort.…”

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An empirical study on Internet-based false news stories: experiences, problem awareness, and responsibilities

Grüner¹

2020

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The Internet has significantly reduced the marginal costs of generating and disseminating information. The human information portfolio includes correct and incorrect information. False news stories constitute a challenge for our democracy. Therefore, scientists are increasingly interested in redesigning the information ecosystem. This paper addresses the problem awareness of university students in the realm of false news stories. With the help of a questionnaire, we seek for interesting correlations to generate hypotheses that can be analyzed in further studies with new data (i.e., exploratory study). The hypotheses read as follows: (i) Facebook users are more likely to suspect to be in touch with false news stories if they are interested in politics. People are less likely to assume to deal with false news stories the stronger they trust in others and the more emphasis they put on the opinions of others, (ii) False news stories are perceived as a problem at the societal level but not at the individual level, (iii) Men more often than women believe to be in touch with false news stories; men overestimate their ability to spot false news stories. People who fear false news stories are likely to believe that they could detect such information better than the average, and (iv) People see operators of platforms to be in charge of false news stories; people seem to have less confidence in the government.

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Information avoidance behavior on social network sites: Information irrelevance, overload, and the moderating role of time pressure

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Examining the Effect of Overload on the MHealth Application Resistance Behavior of Elderly Users: An SOR Perspective

Examining the Effect of Overload on the MHealth Application Resistance Behavior of Elderly Users: An SOR Perspective

Information Anxieties and Information Distrust: The effects of Overload Information about COVID – 19

An empirical study on Internet-based false news stories: experiences, problem awareness, and responsibilities

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