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

Griffin, Robert J., Dunwoody, Sharon, Neuwirth, Kurt·1999·Environmental Research

DOI 10.1006/enrs.1998.3940

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We articulate a model that focuses on characteristics of individuals that might predispose them to seek and process information about health in different ways. Specifically, the model proposes that seven factors-(1) individual characteristics, (2) perceived hazard characteristics, (3) affective response to the risk, (4) felt social pressures to possess relevant information, (5) information sufficiency, (6) one's personal capacity to learn, (7) beliefs about the usefulness of information in various channels-will influence the extent to which a person will seek out this risk information in both routine and nonroutine channels and the extent to which he or she will spend time and effort analyzing the risk information critically. By adapting and synthesizing aspects of Eagly and Chaiken's Heuristic-Systematic Model and Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior, we also expect that people who engage in more effortful information seeking and processing are more likely to develop risk-related cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors that are more stable (i.e., less changeable or volatile) over time. Since most forms of health information campaigns attempt to get people to adopt habitual or lifestyle changes, factors leading to the stability or volatility of those behavioral changes are essential concerns.

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Authors: Griffin, R. J., Dunwoody, S., & Neuwirth, K.
Affiliations: Marquette University (US)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
University of Cincinnati (US)
ORCID: Griffin, Robert J.
Venue: Environmental Research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1999-02
Volume: 80
Issue: 2
Pages: S230-S245
ISSN: 0013-9351 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3940
OpenAlex: W2145362870
Cited by: 1,187
References: 88
Citations by year: 2026: 92 · 2025: 100 · 2024: 89 · 2023: 100 · 2022: 99 · 2021: 111 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 50 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 41 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 49 · 2012: 29
FWCI: 18.80
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Environmental Research (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
Social Sciences › Communication › Media Influence and Health
Keywords: risk information seeking, risk information processing, preventive health behavior, heuristic-systematic model, theory of planned behavior, information sufficiency, learning ability, health information campaigns
MeSH terms: Communication, Humans, Information Services, Models, Theoretical, Public Health, Risk Management, Risk-Taking, Social Conditions, Health Behavior

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