Social dominance orientation and information seeking about the Mpox outbreak.

• Tác giả: Xinxia Dong, Janet Z Yang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 153.2 Formation and association of ideas
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Journal of health psychology , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 239343

Tóm tắt

Grounded in the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model, this study investigated how individual characteristics and socio-psychological factors influenced Americans' information seeking about the Monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak. The RISP model proposes that one's cognitive need for information (i.e. information insufficiency) and desire to fulfill social expectations about their own information level (i.e. informational subjective norms) are key factors that motivate information seeking. Further, risk judgment and affective response contribute to these two primary motivational factors. Based on a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults (