The Role of Pandemic Fatigue in Seeking and Avoiding Information on Covid-19 Among Young Adults
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21617366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica L Ford (0000-0001-6589-2546, Baylor University, corresponding author), Matthew A Douglas (0000-0002-8683-7025, Baylor University), Ashley K Barrett (0000-0003-3518-501X, Baylor University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2336-2349 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-0236 • E-ISSN: 1532-7027 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10410236.2022.2069211 |
| PMID | 35514105 |
| OpenAlex | W4229032078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 44 |
The health information environment surrounding COVID-19 is complex, with varying and competing information. This study uses the risk information seeking and processing model (RISP) to examine COVID-19 information seeking and avoiding among young adults. Pandemic fatigue is also operationalized and tested as a more nuanced measure of negative affective response within the RISP framework. Survey results (N = 527) reveal pandemic fatigue predicts information seeking and avoidance, but may have a weaker influence on these outcome variables than the RISP’s original construct of negative affective response. Additionally, the original RISP model achieved slightly more explanatory power in predicting risk information seeking than our revised RISP model, using pandemic fatigue as an alternative measure of negative affective response. These findings indicate that contemporary concepts such as pandemic fatigue may be incorporated into applications of the RISP model, thus allowing researchers to evaluate other types of negative affective responses to risk and further expanding the utility of the model. Theoretical implications and practical recommendations for public health officials and health care workers are discussed
Explanatory power · Information seeking · Operationalization · Pandemic · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Psychological and behavioral responses to Covid-19
To Access or Not to Access
Current approaches and new directions for research and theorizing on health and risk information acquisition behavior
Emotions, preventive measures, and risk perception in post-emergency Covid-19
Pandemic fatigue and depressive symptoms among college students in the Covid-19 context
“Hide Our Heads in the Sand”
From fear to facts
Understanding preventative behavior during prolonged crises
The Roles of Social Media Use and Medical Mistrust in Black Americans’ Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Experience Pandemic Fatigue? Social Media Use May Play a Role
Identifying anti-vaccine subgroups for targeted messaging
The impact of social media exposure and online peer networks on green purchase behavior
Understanding PM2.5 risk information seeking and processing among South Koreans
The Role of Family as a Source of Health Information Among College Students
Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Factors on Risk Information Avoidance
Examining the Pathways From Information Acquisition to Preventive Behaviors
Unraveling the impact of infodemic stress on information and health behaviors
Revenge outbound travel in the post-pandemic era
Predictors and Outcomes of Online Health Information Avoidance in the Context of Covid-19
The American Public’s Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)
Feeling and Healing in Different Spaces and Phases
Social dominance orientation and information seeking about the Mpox outbreak
Development of a fatigue scale
An Augmented Risk Information Seeking Model
Personal Cancer Knowledge and Information Seeking Through PRISM
Proposed Model of the Relationship of Risk Information Seeking and Processing to the Development of Preventive Behaviors
Avoiding Health Information
Why People Use Health Services
How Message Fatigue toward Health Messages Leads to Ineffective Persuasive Outcomes
Defining Moments in Risk Communication Research
The theory of planned behavior
Do we experience pandemic fatigue? current state, predictors, and prevention
Surviving organizational tolerance of sexual harassment
Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts
Communication and Uncertainty Management
Effective Risk Communication
Information Sufficiency and Risk Communication
Prism
Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model
Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Vaccine Scandals
Risk Information Seeking Among U.S. and Dutch Residents
Disruption and Identity Maintenance in Risk Information Seeking and Processing
Planned Risk Information Avoidance
Toward a Theory of Motivated Information Management
Putting the fear back into fear appeals
Message fatigue
Mass Media Flow and Differential Growth in Knowledge
What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance
After the Flood
Increasing Information Seeking About Antibiotic Risks
Effects of Covid-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing
Seeking and Processing Information about Impersonal Risk
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |