Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-2015
Publisher
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Source Publication
AEJMC Annual Convention
Abstract
The relationship between uncertainty and emotional reactions to risk has been explored in only a cursory fashion to date. This study seeks to remedy that by examining linkages between uncertainty judgment and such affective reactions as worry and anger within the context of an environmental health risk. It uses data from a longitudinal study of people’s reactions to the risks of eating contaminated fish from the Great Lakes, which employed the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model proposed by Griffin, Dunwoody and Neuwirth (1999) and, in the process, seeks to test the expanded model, which includes behavioral intentions. Findings supported the expanded model and indicated both that uncertainty judgment has a strong influence on worry and anger and that anger has a positive impact on attitude toward fish avoidance.
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Robert J.; Fung, Timothy K.F.; and Dunwoody, Sharon, "Testing Links Among Uncertainty, Affect and Attitude Toward a Health Behavior in a Risky Setting" (2015). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 649.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/649
Comments
Author version. "Testing Links Among Uncertainty, Affect and Attitude Toward a Health Behavior in a Risky Setting." A Paper presented to Communication Theory and Methodology Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, annual convention. San Francisco, CA, August 6-9, 2015. Publisher link. © 2015 The Author. Used with permission.