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.

精心构想和精心设计的风险交流信息可以传达风险信息，以帮助人们做出最终保护他们免受健康和环境风险的决定。当人们收到有关风险的信息时，他们常常会感到焦虑，而不会像其他人一样寻求或保留信息，从而很难做出好的决定。了解焦虑如何影响人们的信息处理和管理以设计更好的风险交流信息至关重要。该项目将风险感知态度框架应用于两个实验，以检查焦虑的人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。该项目将处理和反应的自我报告量度与眼睛跟踪（以衡量信息的关注）和焦虑量度相结合。该项目的发现很重要，因为它们将通过确定人们在焦虑时在决策中使用风险信息的方式来理解如何设计风险交流信息。风险感知态度框架是一种风险交流模型，可以预测受感知的风险和效率信念细分的受众如何寻找风险信息和他们将经历的情绪。框架预测那些具有高风险感知但效率低下的人可能会避免信息并会感到焦虑（称为焦虑片段）。关于陷入焦虑部分的人们如何应对风险信息，寻求和处理有关风险的信息的差距。这项研究考试：（1）风险感知和有效性如何通过焦虑来影响信息处理和管理行为处理，（2）焦虑片中人们最好处理的有效性信息的类型，以及（3）焦虑者在增强有效性信念时如何处理信息。这项研究涉及两项研究：一项在线实验，测试具有全国代表性样本的风险感知态度框架，以及仅与焦虑的人进行实验室实验，以进一步研究他们如何处理信息。该研究结合了吸引人的数据和自我报告，以检查风险信息注意力和处理。这种项目信息的风险沟通会通过关注焦虑的作用来对健康和环境风险进行，这是一个情绪激动的人在接触风险信息时经常经历的。了解焦虑的个人流程信息如何有助于改善大量人群的风险沟通。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准被认为是通过评估来获得的支持。