Proposed Model of the Relationship of Risk Information Seeking and Processing to the Development of Preventive Behaviors

Griffin, Robert J.; Dunwoody, Sharon; Neuwirth, Kurt

doi:10.1006/enrs.1998.3940

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“…For all these reasons, relevant papers have suggested that HSM may be adequate to describe how people use information to make a judgement about risk associated with industrial companies (Griffin, Dunwoody, and Neuwirth 1999;Trumbo 2002). Within this model, risk perception is typically defined as a function of the individual's cognitive and affective estimations of the probability of experiencing harm from a given hazard (Trumbo, McComas, and Besley 2008).…”

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The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

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Llorens-Monzonís

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Journal of Risk Research

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Section: The Heuristic-systematic Model and Its Relationship With Rismentioning

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The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

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Llorens-Monzonís

et al. 2013

Journal of Risk Research

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“…At its most basic, we would expect that individuals who find the threat relevant and significant, for example those who are concerned about uncertainty, will have different strategies in relation to processing the information provided than those who do not [11]. The literature suggests that low and intermediate fear levels typically elicit "danger control" responses such as information seeking [12]. Similarly, Neuwirth [13] noted in a review article, that where individuals perceive a risk they are more likely to seek out information.…”

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Public responses to precautionary information from the Department of Health (UK) about possible health risks from mobile phones

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Understanding public perceptions of health information is of increasing importance in the light of the growing imperatives upon regulators to communicate information about risk and uncertainty.Communicating the possible health risks from mobile telecommunications is a domain that allows consideration of both public perceptions of uncertain public health information and public responses to precautionary advice. This research reports the results of a nationally representative survey in the UK (n = 1742) that explored public responses to a leaflet issued by the Department of Health (DoH) in 2000 providing information about the possible health risks of mobile phones. The aims of the study were twofold: a) to assess awareness of the leaflet and the extent to which participants could identify the precautionary advice that the leaflet contained as coming from the Government; and b) to examine publics" responses to the current Government precautionary advice about mobile phone health risks; was this associated with increased concern or reassurance? The results indicate the importance of policy makers developing a clear understanding of the possible effects of communicating precautionary advice.

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“…It is relevant to note that the current study does not account for a number of other variables used in the RISP model to predict information seeking. In particular, information insufficiency is thought to further mediate associations between perceptions of risk and information seeking, as well as between individual characteristics and information seeking [15]. If increased perceptions of risk did not lead respondents to believe that the information they already had about the Multiplex genetic test was inadequate, then we may not expect to find an association between risk perceptions and information seeking.…”

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“…Consistent with these theoretical models, perceived risk has been shown to be positively associated with interest in receiving a genetic test [8] and to seeking health information online [14]. Further, the risk information seeking and processing model (RISP) posits that individual characteristics influence information seeking through a path that is mediated by an anxiety response and cognitive risk factors such as perceived susceptibility to and severity of health conditions [15]. Simply put, according to the RISP model, individual differences would generally be expected to affect information-seeking behaviors through perceptions of risk.…”

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Exploring dispositional tendencies to seek online information about direct-to-consumer genetic testing

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Koehly

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Varying perspectives exist regarding the implications of genetic susceptibility testing for common disease, with some anticipating adverse effects and others expecting positive outcomes; however, little is known about the characteristics of people who are most likely to be interested in direct-to-consumer genetic testing. To that end, this study examines the association of individual dispositional differences with health risk perceptions and online information seeking related to a free genetic susceptibility test. Healthy adults enrolled in a large health maintenance organization were surveyed by telephone. Eligible participants (N=1,959) were given access to a secure website that provided risk and benefit information about a genetic susceptibility test and given the option to be tested. Neuroticism was associated with increased perceptions of disease risk but not with logging on. Those scoring high in conscientiousness were more likely to log on. We found no evidence that neuroticism, a dispositional characteristic commonly linked to adverse emotional response, was predictive of online genetic information seeking in this sample of healthy adults.

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Proposed Model of the Relationship of Risk Information Seeking and Processing to the Development of Preventive Behaviors

Cited by 912 publications

References 51 publications

The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

Public responses to precautionary information from the Department of Health (UK) about possible health risks from mobile phones

Exploring dispositional tendencies to seek online information about direct-to-consumer genetic testing

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