Media system dependency and change in risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic

Múñiz, Carlos

doi:10.51698/tripodos.2020.47p11-26

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“…When faced with the risk of a life-threatening disease, the public relies on the media to obtain accurate and up-to-date risk information in order to make informed decisions about health-protective behaviors. The “Media-System Dependency Theory” ( Ball-Rokeach and DeFleur, 1976 ) suggests that, in times of risk crisis with high uncertainty, the public increases its reliance on the media ( Casero-Ripollés, 2020 ; Huynh, 2020 ; Muñiz, 2020 ) and tends to obtain risk assessment and risk response advice from the media they perceive as trusted ( Lachlan et al, 2016 ).…”

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A Study on the Correlation Between Media Usage Frequency and Audiences’ Risk Perception, Emotion and Behavior

Zhong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Whether risk events can be effectively controlled and mitigated is largely influenced by people’s perceptions of risk events and their behavioral cooperation. Therefore, this study used a web-based questionnaire (N = 306) to investigate the specific factors influencing people’s risk perceptions and behaviors, and included a test for the difference in the effect of positive and negative emotions of the audiences. The results show that the overall model has good explanatory power (R2 = 61%) for the behavioral variables, and (1) how people’s use of different media (especially TV and online media) significantly influenced their positive and negative emotions; (2) how people’s frequency of TV use significantly influenced their risk susceptibility and how online media use significantly influenced their risk severity (with some differences in people’s perceptions of efficacy between different media); (3) how people’s sense of efficacy for risky events is the strongest predictor of their risk control behavior; and (4) that there are different mediating effects of different emotions and risk severity and sense of efficacy between the frequency of media use and risk control behavior.

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A Study on the Correlation Between Media Usage Frequency and Audiences’ Risk Perception, Emotion and Behavior

Zhong

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Our review of literature reveals several studies dealing with media consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Muñiz (2020) conducted an online survey among Facebook users in Mexico to determine the level of media system dependency held by the Mexican citizens at the beginning of the crisis. Their findings revealed a moderate dependency together with a moderate risk perception among the population.…”

Section: Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, participants who were feeling lonely were more inclined to use social media to cope with lacking social contact. Both Muñiz's (2020) and Cauberghe et al (2021) studies were conducted in one country only and did not examine channel preferences during the pandemic as related to specific media dependency goals cross-culturally. Therefore, we pose the research question:…”

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Media and interpersonal channels uses and preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the United States, Thailand, and Croatia

Sheldon

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Charoensap-Kelly

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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According to media systems dependency theory, increased dependence on media to meet individual needs is directly proportional to greater perceived media importance in one's life and subsequently stronger media effects on one's attitudes and behavior. This dependency relationship intensifies during times of uncertainty or crisis. Although several recent studies have focused on media dependence during health crises such as SARS and H1N1 influenza, insights from eastern countries may not be validated in other hemisphere. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to adopt a cross-cultural lens to examine how participants from three different continents used media during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 860 adults completed a survey during April and May 2020.Participants were asked to provide demographic and socioeconomic details, followed by questions measuring their media consumption, channel preferences, motivations, and perception of their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results revealed that national culture had a strong influence on media use and preferences during the COVID-19 crisis. For example, the US participants spent the most time using the media but scored the lowest on well-being. This aligns with the claim that in individualistic countries people rely on media more than on their social network. US participants also used the media for surveillance goals more than their Thai or Croatian counterparts. Another cultural difference was that Thai participants reported using the media to relax more than other nationalities, which reflects the Thai's "way of life" and can explain their higher score on well-being. Finally, there were cultural differences in the use of social media. While Croatian and Thai participants' use of social media reflected collectivistic tendencies (using social media for social interaction), among Americans, social media use reflects individualistic trends (using social media for surveillance). The study discusses limitations and suggestions for future research.

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“…During social isolation, people have monitored the media more frequently . Both traditional and social media had become important tools to access information (Muñiz, 2020). During a health crisis, the need to get precise and recent information to make decisions on protecting health is one of the reasons that increase the use of media (Garfin, Silver & Holman, 2020).…”

Section: Health Anxiety and Media Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Pandemi Döneminde Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Medya Kullanımı, Sağlık Okuryazarlığı, Sağlık Kaygısı ve Sağlık Davranışları

Demirtepe-Saygılı

Eşiyok

Turancı

2021

Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Living with the pandemic influenced people's lifestyles and health behaviors as well as their use of media. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of change in health behaviors of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes in health behaviors refer to changes of mainly eating and exercise behaviors to stay healthy. In this study, media use, health literacy and health perception are the determinants of change in health behaviors; health anxiety and healthy living skills are considered as mediating variables. Questionnaires were filled in by 392 university students in Ankara, Turkey within the second month of the pandemic. According to the findings, as the levels of positive perception of health, health literacy level, health anxiety level, and healthy life skills increase, the level of change in health behavior increases. The path analysis revealed that more positive perceptions of health and higher levels of health literacy are related to higher levels of change in health behaviors through the mediation of healthy life skills. In addition, the use of Twitter increases health anxiety during the pandemic and results in a higher level of change in health behaviors. The findings help to better understand the motivations to change health behaviors for selfprotection against the COVID-19 among university students.

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Media system dependency and change in risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 22 publications

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A Study on the Correlation Between Media Usage Frequency and Audiences’ Risk Perception, Emotion and Behavior

A Study on the Correlation Between Media Usage Frequency and Audiences’ Risk Perception, Emotion and Behavior

Media and interpersonal channels uses and preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the United States, Thailand, and Croatia

COVID-19 Pandemi Döneminde Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Medya Kullanımı, Sağlık Okuryazarlığı, Sağlık Kaygısı ve Sağlık Davranışları

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