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Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society.

Jarim KimJiyeon LeeJinha BaekJiyeon Ju
Published in: Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) (2024)
This study examined how uncertainty affects information seeking and avoidance behaviors via information insufficiency in the COVID-19 vaccination context. It also investigated how trust in science, government, and society moderate the effects of information insufficiency. An online experiment with 131 Korean adults showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information seeking intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by science trust and governmental trust. It also showed that uncertainty indirectly affects information avoidance intentions via information insufficiency, which is moderated by social trust.
Keyphrases
  • health information
  • social media
  • coronavirus disease
  • public health
  • sars cov
  • mental health
  • high intensity
  • mass spectrometry
  • social support
  • single molecule
  • atomic force microscopy