Fear-Mongering or Fact-Driven? Illuminating the Interplay of Objective Risk and Emotion-Evoking Form in the Response to Epidemic News

被引：23
作者：
Klemm, Celine [1 ]
Hartmann, Tilo [1 ]
Das, Enny [2 ]
机构：
[1] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Commun Sci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Ctr Language Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands
来源：
HEALTH COMMUNICATION | 2019年 / 34卷 / 01期
关键词：
TELEVISION-NEWS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; EXEMPLIFICATION; SENSATIONALISM; COMMUNICATION; METAANALYSIS; VACCINATION; ACCEPTANCE; APPEALS;
D O I：
10.1080/10410236.2017.1384429
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
This study examined the veracity of the common assumption that news coverage of epidemic outbreaks spawns heightened fears and risk perceptions. An online experiment with 1,324 participants investigated the interplay of the form of news coverage (factual/emotion-laden) and key aspects of actual risk (low/high vulnerability, low/high severity) on audience responses. Participants read one of eight versions of a newspaper article followed by measures on risk perceptions, negative affect, behavioral intentions, and perceived sensationalism. Risk perceptions and fear were primarily driven by objective risk characteristics, whereas emotion-laden news form only increased perceptions of disease severity, not of fear or personal vulnerability.
引用
收藏
页码：74 / 83
页数：10
相关论文
共 42 条
[1]  
Abraham C., 2005, PREDICTING HLTH BEHA, V2nd, P28, DOI DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511543579.022
[2]  
[Anonymous], 2015, J TROPICAL DIS PUBLI, DOI DOI 10.4172/2329-891X.1000152
[3]   Effects of victim exemplification in television news on viewer perception of social issues [J].
Aust, CF ;
Zillmann, D .
JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 1996, 73 (04) :787-803
[4]   A tale of two communication modes - When rational and experiential processing systems encounter statistical and anecdotal depictions of threat [J].
Berger, Charles R. .
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2007, 26 (03) :215-233
[5]  
Botta R.A., 2008, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, V1, P373, DOI [10.1179/cih.2008.1.4.373, DOI 10.1179/CIH.2008.1.4.373]
[6]   Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination [J].
Brewer, Noel T. ;
Chapman, Gretchen B. ;
Gibbons, Frederick X. ;
Gerrard, Meg ;
McCaul, Kevin D. ;
Weinstein, Neil D. .
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 2007, 26 (02) :136-145
[7]   Language intensity as a sensationalistic news feature: The influence of style on sensationalism perceptions and effects [J].
Burgers, Christian ;
de Graaf, Anneke .
COMMUNICATIONS-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 2013, 38 (02) :167-188
[8]   Fear appeals motivate acceptance of action recommendations: Evidence for a positive bias in the processing of persuasive messages [J].
Das, EHHJ ;
de Wit, JBF ;
Stroebe, W .
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN, 2003, 29 (05) :650-664
[9]   'Feeling' risk and seeing solutions - Predicting vaccination intention against hepatitis B infection among men who have sex with men [J].
Das, Enny ;
De Wit, John B. F. ;
Vet, Raymond ;
Frijns, Tom .
JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 2008, 13 (06) :728-732
[10]   The impact of vulnerability to and severity of a health risk on processing and acceptance of fear-arousing communications: A meta-analysis [J].
de Hoog, Natascha ;
Stroebe, Wolfgang ;
de Wit, John B. F. .
REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2007, 11 (03) :258-285
12345