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Mechanism of WeChat’s Impact on Public Risk Perception During COVID-19
- Source :
- Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, Vol Volume 14, Pp 4223-4233 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Dove Medical Press, 2021.
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Abstract
- Yue Zhuang, Tiantian Zhao, Xuanrong Shao School of Safety Science and Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Tiantian ZhaoSchool of Safety Science and Emergency Management, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of ChinaEmail ztt220@whut.edu.cnPurpose: Taking COVID-19 as an example, this paper explores the mechanism of WeChat’s impact on risk information transmission in social media and builds a model of WeChat’s impact on public risk perception based on risk communication.Methods: Research primarily utilised the questionnaire survey method to collect and analyse public attitudes towards COVID-19 to achieve the research goals. We checked the adequacy of measurements and tested the hypotheses with regression analysis based on 801 participants in China.Results: The results indicated that the levels of the public WeChat COVID-19 risk information attention and trust had a significant positive impact on the public’s risk perception and willingness of pandemic prevention. The improved public risk perception of COVID-19 as a mediator enhanced the public pandemic prevention ability, which allowed WeChat to play a more effective role in major disaster emergency.Keywords: COVID-19, WeChat, public risk perception, pandemic prevention
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11791594
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doajarticles..bfa85336f4c77fb248fe996faed78f4e