DDRIG in DRMS: Exploring how anxious people seek and process information about environmental and health risks

DRMS 中的 DDRIG：探索焦虑的人们如何寻求和处理有关环境和健康风险的信息

• 批准号: 2302466
• 负责人: Maria Lapinski
• 金额: $ 2.6万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; DRMS; Exploring; how; anxious

Carefully conceived and crafted risk communication messages can convey risk information to help people make decisions that may ultimately protect them from health and environmental risks. When people receive information about risks, they often feel anxious and do not seek or retain information like other people, making it hard to make good decisions. It is critical to understand how anxiety affects both people’s information processing and management to design better risk communication messages. This project applies the risk perception attitude framework to two experiments to examine how anxious people process and manage risk information regarding two issues: Type 2 diabetes and climate change. This project combines self-report measures of processing and response with eye-tracking (to measure attention to information) and physiological measures of anxiety. The findings of this project are important because they will contribute to our understanding of how to design risk communication messages by identifying the ways in which people use risk information in decisions when they feel anxious. The Risk Perception Attitude framework is a risk communication model that predicts how audiences, segmented by perceived risk and efficacy beliefs, will seek out risk information and the emotions they will experience. The framework predicts that those with high risk perception but weak efficacy beliefs are likely to avoid information and will experience high anxiety (termed the anxious segment). Gaps in knowledge exist about how people who fall into the anxious segment respond to risk information, seek, and process information about risks. This research examines: (1) how risk perception and efficacy beliefs affect information processing and management behaviors processing via anxiety, (2) the type of efficacy information best processed by people in the anxious segment, and (3) how anxious people process information when their efficacy beliefs are enhanced. This research involve two studies: an online experiment testing the Risk Perception Attitude framework with a nationally representative sample, and a laboratory experiment with only anxious people to further investigate how they process information. The study combines eye-tracking data and self-report to examine risk message attention and processing. This project informs risk communication efforts for health and environmental risks by focusing on the role of anxiety, an emotion people often experience when they are exposed to risk information. Understanding how anxious individuals process information can contribute to improving risk communications for a significant population.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

精心构思和制作的风险沟通信息可以传达风险信息，帮助人们做出最终保护他们免受健康和环境风险的决策。当人们收到有关风险的信息时，他们往往会感到焦虑，不会像其他人一样寻求或保留信息，从而很难做出正确的决策。了解焦虑如何影响人们的信息处理和管理对于设计更好的风险沟通信息至关重要。该项目将风险认知态度框架应用于两个实验，以研究焦虑的人们如何处理和管理有关两个问题的风险信息：2 型糖尿病和气候变化。该项目将自我报告的处理和反应测量与眼球追踪（测量对信息的注意力）和焦虑的生理测量结合起来。该项目的研究结果很重要，因为它们将有助于我们理解如何通过确定人们在感到焦虑时在决策中使用风险信息的方式来设计风险沟通信息。风险感知态度框架是一种风险沟通模型，可预测按感知风险和功效信念细分的受众将如何寻找风险信息以及他们将经历的情绪。该框架预测，那些具有高风险感知但弱功效信念的人可能会回避信息，并会经历高度焦虑（称为焦虑部分）。关于陷入焦虑的人们如何应对风险信息、寻找和处理有关风险的信息，存在知识差距。这项研究探讨了：（1）风险认知和功效信念如何通过焦虑影响信息处理和管理行为处理，（2）焦虑人群最能处理的功效信息类型，以及（3）焦虑人群在功效信念增强时如何处理信息。这项研究涉及两项研究：一项使用全国代表性样本测试风险感知态度框架的在线实验，以及一项仅针对焦虑人群进行的实验室实验，以进一步调查他们如何处理信息。该研究结合了眼球追踪数据和自我报告来检查风险信息的关注和处理。该项目通过关注焦虑的作用，为健康和环境风险的风险沟通工作提供信息，焦虑是人们在接触风险信息时经常经历的一种情绪。了解焦虑的个人如何处理信息有助于改善大量人群的风险沟通。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。