Environmental Risk Information Seeking
The Differential Roles of Anxiety and Hopelessness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21192599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay D Hmielowski (0000-0001-6449-4714, Washington State University, corresponding author), Rebecca R Donaway (Washington State University), Rebecca Donaway (Washington State University), Meredith Y Wang (0000-0002-2225-0719, Stephen F. Austin State University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 894-908 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17524032.2018.1500926 |
| OpenAlex | W2888558230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 55 |
Americans’ concern about water quality has increased over the years. Indeed, several water issues made national news coverage during the past few years, such as lead in Flint, Michigan, algae blooms in Florida, and water quality at the Rio Olympics. In this study, we test two alternate paths of engagement relative to how people respond to water problems. First, we examine anxiety as a key variable that triggers active information seeking behaviors. Second, we look at hopelessness as an intervening variable that could explain why some people become disengaged with issues. Additionally, we test whether response efficacy moderates the relationships between perceiving a problem with water and these emotions. Using survey data collected during the fall of 2015, we examine the role of different emotions in increasing and decreasing active information seeking behaviors
Anxiety · Differential effects · Psychiatry · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis
Eco-anxiety
Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Profiles of Multi-Media Use for Risk Communication in the General Population
Examining the relationships between eco-anxiety, sociodemographic factors, experience of climate events, pro-environmental behaviours, and life satisfaction in young adults
“Hide Our Heads in the Sand”
The flipside of hope discourse
Sharing and searching on social media in crises and disasters – A latent class analysis of a representative online sample
The Planned Risk Information Seeking Model Applied to Vaccine Information Avoidance and the Role of Affect, Emotion and Perceived Benefits
The Role of Physical and Mental Health Conditions in Explaining Health Information Seeking and Avoidance Behaviors
The Reciprocity of Discrete Emotions and Health Information Seeking and Avoidance
Reasons to Protect Nature
Modeling Risk Perceptions, Benefit Perceptions, and Approval of Releasing Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes as a Response to Zika Virus
Does the Use of Media and Other Information Sources Cause the Perceived Experience of Climate Change or is it the Other Way Around
Encounters with climate change and its psychosocial aspects through performance making among young people
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance
For My Own Sake
Mapping Health Information Avoidance Among Older Adults in China
Eco-anxiety among young climate activists in the Netherlands
Determinants of information seeking and preventive behavior for perinatal depression among Chinese pregnant women
Climate anxiety
Chinese citizens’ information seeking about nuclear wastewater
Bad Environmentalism”
Fear-based self-legitimising agency in the climate governance discourse
Fear-based self-legitimation in the institutional climate change discourse
Human Emotions
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States
Proposed Model of the Relationship of Risk Information Seeking and Processing to the Development of Preventive Behaviors
Appraisal components, core relational themes, and the emotions
Beyond valence
The roles of rhetoric in the public understanding of science
Perceived Risk and Efficacy Beliefs as Motivators of Change
“We Don't Really Want to Know”
Communication and Uncertainty Management
On the Distinct Political Effects of Anxiety and Anger
Responding to Community Outrage
Risk Perception and Affect
Prism
Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model
Emotion and Personality, Vol. I
Self-efficacy
Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing
Climate change, powerlessness and the commons dilemma
Putting the fear back into fear appeals
Dysphoria and decision making
Progress on a cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion
Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change
Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples
Is a Worried Citizen a Good Citizen? Emotions, Political Information Seeking, and Learning via the Internet
Political efficacy and trust
Does Survey Mode Still Matter? Findings from a 2010 Multi-Mode Comparison
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance
After the Flood
Using Political Efficacy Messages to Increase Climate Activism
Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk
Pleasure-arousal theory and the intensity of emotions
Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion
Effects of components of protection-motivation theory on adaptive and maladaptive coping with a health threat
What can we learn from 25 years of PUS survey research? Liberating and expanding the agenda
Risk as feelings
The development of anxiety
The Role of Anxiety in Seeking and Retaining Risk Information
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |