Seeking Information About Climate Change: Effects of Media Use in an Extended PRISM
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This study replicates and extends the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) in the context of impersonal risk by incorporating media use as an antecedent of risk information seeking intention. Results indicate that the model applies equally well to Singaporeans’ climate change information seeking intention as it does in the context of personal health information, suggesting that the model is generalizable across different risk and cultural contexts. Findings suggest that media use is an important source of perceived knowledge and, indirectly, sufficiency threshold, which clarifies the role of actual information seeking in risk perceptions and future information seeking.
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Previous research found media use to be a mediator in PRISM for predicting impersonal risk information seeking, specifically examining climate change.
“Previous research found media use to be a mediator in PRISM for predicting impersonal risk information seeking, specifically examining climate change [27].”
From A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study (2020) · cites this paper as [27]
Additional research has found support for PRISM as an acceptable model for predicting information seeking intentions.
“Additional research has found support for PRISM to be an acceptable model for predicting information seeking intentions [26-28].”
From A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study (2020) · cites this paper as [27]
Media use has been found to be associated with health information seeking for impersonal risk.
“Media use has been found to be associated with health information seeking for impersonal risk [27,32].”
From A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study (2020) · cites this paper as [27]
In the US sample, there was no direct effect of media use on seeking intention.
“We did not find a direct effect of media use on seeking intention in the US sample, which is consistent with the study by Ho et al [27].”
From A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study (2020) · cites this paper as [27]
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- Authors
- Ho, S. S., Detenber, B. H., Rosenthal, S., & Lee, E. W. J.
- Affiliations
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Venue
- Science Communication
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-02-07
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 270-295
- ISSN
- 0164-0259 (ISSN-L)
- 1075-5470
- 1552-8545
- OpenAlex
- W2089279559
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 10.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Science Communication (publishedVersion)
- Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Keywords
- media use, perceived knowledge, risk perception, Singaporeans, cross-cultural generalizability, health information seeking
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