Interdisciplinary Center for General Ecology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
Risk Anal. 2011 May;31(5):832-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01544.x. Epub 2010 Dec 22.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly pervasive and continue to reshape our environment. This trend carries different risks. Therefore, the early sensitization of people to these risks, as well as improving their capacity for protective coping behavior, is essential. Based on the protection motivation theory (PMT), we examined with structural equation modeling the relationships between different components of threat and coping appraisal to explain protective and nonprotective responses. Calculations were performed with data from a representative survey on perception and use of ICT among German residents (N= 5,030). Our findings largely supported the proposed model: an increased perceived threat was positively related to the intentions to react protectively and nonprotectively. Perceived coping efficacy increased the protective and decreased the nonprotective responses. Negative affect enhanced the perceived threat and the nonprotective response, but inhibited protective intentions. The implications of these findings on how to sensitize people to the risks of these new technologies are outlined.
信息和通信技术（ICTs）日益普及，继续改变我们的环境。这一趋势带来了不同的风险。因此，早期让人们意识到这些风险，并提高他们采取保护应对行为的能力，是至关重要的。基于保护动机理论（PMT），我们通过结构方程建模来检验威胁和应对评估的不同组成部分之间的关系，以解释保护和非保护反应。计算是基于德国居民对信息通信技术的感知和使用的代表性调查的数据进行的（N=5030）。我们的研究结果在很大程度上支持了所提出的模型：感知到的威胁增加与反应的保护和非保护意图呈正相关。感知到的应对效能提高了保护反应，降低了非保护反应。负面情绪增强了感知到的威胁和非保护反应，但抑制了保护意图。这些发现对如何让人们对这些新技术的风险保持敏感提出了一些启示。
