Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-1999
Publisher
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Source Publication
AEJMC Annual Convention
Abstract
A model proposes that the form of information processing individuals apply to risk information from the media and other sources affects the number of behavioral beliefs they consider to be important to their judgments about performing risk-reducing behaviors and eventually influences the stability or maintenance of those behaviors. This study found that deeper, more systematic processing of risk information is positively related to behavioral belief accession and consideration across two communities and three risks (two health risks and one ecological risk). Education, representing processing capacity, enhances this relationship.
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Robert J.; Neuwirth, Kurt; Giese, James K.; and Dunwoody, Sharon, "The Relationship of Risk Information Processing to Consideration of Behavioral Beliefs" (1999). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 668.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/668
Comments
The Relationship of Risk Information Processing to Consideration of Behavioral Beliefs. Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. August 1999. DOI. © 1999 The Author. Used with permission.