Xu Tao
College of Law and Political Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Nov 20;9(11):1597. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9111597.
Previous research has revealed that environmental, social, and cultural factors affect people's risk perception of COVID-19, especially the influence of media and trust, while the dynamics of how they affect it is still not clear. Through the analysis of online survey data, this article shows that there are two opposed paths of action. Trust in the government will enhance people's confidence in controlling COVID-19. It then moderates and decreases the effects of people's level and frequency of concernon the risk perception (both cognition and worries) of COVID-19, on the contrary, obtaining information from unofficial channels also moderates and increases the effects of the people's level and frequency of concern on the second dimension (worries) of risk perception of COVID-19 rather than the first dimension (cognition). These conclusions have important policy implications for the control of the COVID-19 epidemic all over the world.
以往的研究表明，环境、社会和文化因素会影响人们对新冠病毒的风险认知，尤其是媒体和信任的影响，但其影响机制尚不清楚。通过对在线调查数据的分析，本文表明存在两种相反的作用路径。对政府的信任会增强人们对控制新冠疫情的信心。进而调节并降低人们的关注程度和频率对新冠疫情风险认知（包括认知和担忧）的影响，相反，从非官方渠道获取信息也会调节并增强人们的关注程度和频率对新冠疫情风险认知的第二个维度（担忧）而非第一个维度（认知）的影响。这些结论对全球新冠疫情防控具有重要的政策启示。
