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Risk information seeking and processing about particulate air pollution in South Korea : the roles of cultural worldview
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study integrates cultural theory of risk into the risk information seeking and processing model in the context of particulate air pollution in South Korea. Specifically, it examines how cultural worldviews (hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism, and fatalism) influence the way people interpret risk about an environmental risk, which may in turn promote or deter their information seeking and processing about the risk. An online survey (N = 645) showed that egalitarianism was positively associated with perceptions of societal and personal risks, affective responses toward the risk, and informational subjective norms. Perceived societal risk, in particular, mediated the effect of egalitarianism on information insufficiency. Moreover, cultural worldview was a significant moderator of the relationships between information insufficiency and risk information seeking and processing. The positive relationship between information insufficiency and information seeking grew stronger with increasing egalitarianism. In contrast, the negative relationship between information insufficiency and heuristic processing was strengthened with increasing hierarchy. This study extends prior theories and models in risk communication by addressing the roles of cultural worldview, an important individual difference factor in interpreting environmental risks.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
media_common.quotation_subject
Information Seeking Behavior
0211 other engineering and technologies
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Risk Assessment
01 natural sciences
Access to Information
Air Pollution
Surveys and Questionnaires
Physiology (medical)
Republic of Korea
Humans
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Cultural theory of risk
Egalitarianism
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Air Pollutants
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Hierarchy
Cultural Characteristics
Information seeking
Fatalism
Communication [Social sciences]
Environmental Exposure
Middle Aged
Moderation
humanities
Philosophy
Negative relationship
Public Opinion
Regression Analysis
Female
Particulate Matter
Psychology
Cultural Worldview
Social psychology
Information Seeking And Processing
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1baed5c73dfc7a4c857a8f1fa48d84ff