RAPID: Information Sufficiency, Source Preferences, and Mitigation Behaviors Surrounding Hurricane Ian

自然灾害，如毁灭性的飓风伊恩在西南佛罗里达，提供了一个独特的机会，检查风险信息寻求行为。当面临高风险天气事件时，人们可能会有动力寻求信息，以减轻焦虑并收集有关如何保护自己的信息。虽然这些趋势已得到充分记录，但人们对媒体依赖性在多大程度上转化为所需行为以及特定来源依赖性是否取决于信息充分性知之甚少。最近在其他紧急情况下的研究表明，这些依赖关系可能围绕信息深度聚集，但这尚未与充足阈值联系起来。与风险新闻内容的接触在多大程度上激励了围绕自然灾害的减灾和疏散工作，也没有直接研究。研究结果有助于我们的知识基础，填补了一个显着的差距，在社会科学文献的应急反应，通过评估自我感知，处理风格，来源偏好之间的联系，和保护actions.The研究包括一个在线调查分发到1,000名居民的西南佛罗里达受飓风伊恩。参与者按邮政编码识别，并从直接受风暴影响的佛罗里达各县抽取。参与者被问及不同新闻媒体的相对重要性，第一警报的来源，寻找信息所花的时间，风险感知（包括程度和概率），缓解和疏散行为，以及信息充分性阈值。其目的是通过调查风险感知和信息充分性与特定来源偏好的联系程度，以及这些依赖性随后与缓解和疏散相关的程度，来扩展以前的研究。通过研究对特定新闻渠道的偏好，沿着信息消费和响应中的信息充分性阈值的作用，这些组织可能能够开发消息放置和内容的最佳实践。这些数据还可以为应急管理人员和危机响应人员提供有价值的指导，帮助他们识别不太倾向于将风险内在化和/或采取保护措施的受众，并直接吸引这些受众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Natural disasters, such as the devastating Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida, present a unique opportunity to examine risk information seeking behavior. When faced with a high-risk weather event, individuals are likely to be motivated to seek information in order to alleviate anxiety and gather information about how to protect themselves. While these tendencies are well documented, less is known about the extent to which media dependency translates into desired behavior, and whether specific source dependencies are contingent on information sufficiency. Recent studies in other emergency contexts have suggested that these dependencies may cluster around information depth, but this has not yet been linked empirically to sufficiency thresholds. The extent to which engagement with risk news content motivates mitigation and evacuation efforts surrounding a natural disaster has also not been directly examined. The findings contribute to our knowledge base by filling a significant gap in the social science literature on emergency response by evaluating the links between self-perception, processing styles, source preferences, and protective actions.The study consists of an online survey distributed to 1,000 residents of southwest Florida impacted by Hurricane Ian. Participants are identified by zip code and drawn from counties in Florida that were directly impacted by the storm. Participants are asked about the relative importance of varying news outlets, sources of first alerts, time spent seeking information, risk perception (including magnitude and probability), mitigation and evacuation behaviors, and information sufficiency thresholds. The aim is to extend previous research by investigating the extent to which risk perception and information sufficiency are tied to specific source preferences, and the degree to which these dependencies are subsequently associated with mitigation and evacuation. By examining preferences for specific news outlets, along with the role of information sufficiency thresholds in information consumption and response, these organizations may be able to develop best practices for message placement and content. The data may also provide valuable guidance to emergency managers and crisis responders in terms of identifying audiences that are less inclined to internalize risk and/or take protective actions, and appeal to those audiences directly.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.