Communicating uncertainties regarding COVID-19 vaccination: Moderating roles of trust in science, government, and society
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- 20 January 2024
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Public Understanding of Science
- Vol. 33 (4) , 447-465
Abstract
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.Keywords
Funding Information
- The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020S1A5A8045745)
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