Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.
Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 24;16(11):e0259523. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259523. eCollection 2021.
This study explored relations between COVID-19 news source, trust in COVID-19 information source, and COVID-19 health literacy in 194 STEM-oriented adolescents and young adults from the US and the UK. Analyses suggest that adolescents use both traditional news (e.g., TV or newspapers) and social media news to acquire information about COVID-19 and have average levels of COVID-19 health literacy. Hierarchical linear regression analyses suggest that the association between traditional news media and COVID-19 health literacy depends on participants' level of trust in their government leader. For youth in both the US and the UK who used traditional media for information about COVID-19 and who have higher trust in their respective government leader (i.e., former US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson) had lower COVID-19 health literacy. Results highlight how youth are learning about the pandemic and the importance of not only considering their information source, but also their levels of trust in their government leaders.
本研究探索了新冠病毒新闻来源、对新冠病毒信息来源的信任度与美国和英国 194 名 STEM 倾向青少年和年轻人的新冠病毒健康素养之间的关系。分析表明，青少年使用传统新闻（如电视或报纸）和社交媒体新闻来获取有关新冠病毒的信息，并且具有平均水平的新冠病毒健康素养。分层线性回归分析表明，传统新闻媒体与新冠病毒健康素养之间的关联取决于参与者对其政府领导人的信任程度。对于同时使用传统媒体获取新冠病毒信息且对各自政府领导人（即美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普和英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊）的信任度较高的美国和英国青少年而言，其新冠病毒健康素养较低。研究结果突出了年轻人如何了解大流行，以及不仅要考虑其信息来源，还要考虑其对政府领导人的信任度的重要性。
