Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-1998
Publisher
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Source Publication
AEJMC Annual Convention
Abstract
Analysis of a survey of two Great Lakes cities develops and tests part of a model that focuses on characteristics of individuals that might predispose them to seek and process information about risks in different ways. Support is found for the model’s propositions that information sufficiency (a person’s sense of the amount of information needed to cope with a health risk) is based partially on affective response to the risk, which is based in part on perceptions of key characteristics of the risk. Support is less strong for the proposition that felt normative pressures to possess information may also affect information sufficiency.
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Robert J.; Neuwirth, Kurt; and Dunwoody, Sharon, "Applying an Information Seeking and Processing Model to a Study of Communication about Energy" (1998). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 651.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/651
Comments
Author version. "Applying an Information Seeking and Processing Model to a Study of Communication about Energy." A Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, annual convention. Baltimore, MD, August 1998. DOI. ©1998 The Author. Used with permission.