School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu 610071, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 3;19(9):5552. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095552.
Information sharing is critical in risk communication and management during the COVID-19 epidemic, and information sharing has been a part of individual prevention and particular lifestyles under the "New Normal" of COVID-19. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore influencing factors and mechanisms in public and private information sharing intention among people under the regular risk situation. This study investigated an information sharing mechanism based on a cross-sectional design. We collected 780 valid responses through a sample database of an online questionnaire platform and utilized partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to further analyze the data. To explore the difference caused by news frames, we divided respondents into two groups according to the news frame (action frame vs. reassurance frame) and proceeded with the multi-group analysis. The results showed that four types of outcome expectations (information seeking, emotion regulation, altruism and public engagement) and habit had impacts on public and private information sharing intention. Two paths influencing information sharing proposed in this study were supported. The results showed that outcome expectations were positively related to habit, which implies that the cognitive mechanism was positively relevant to the formation of habit. The results proved that habit played a mediating role between outcome expectations and information sharing. This research found that emotion regulation and public engagement outcome expectations only affected two types of information sharing intention mediated by habit. Regarding the role of the news frame, this study found no significant difference between the group exposed to action-framed news and the group exposed to reassurance-framed news. By exploring influencing factors and the mechanism of information sharing under the "New Normal", these findings contribute to understanding of information sharing and have implications on risk management. The proposed mechanism classifying public and private information sharing complements risk information flowing by considering online risk incubation.
信息共享在 COVID-19 疫情期间的风险沟通和管理中至关重要，信息共享一直是 COVID-19 新常态下个人预防和特定生活方式的一部分。因此，本研究旨在探讨在常规风险情况下，人们公开和私下分享信息的意图的影响因素和机制。本研究基于横断面设计调查了一种信息共享机制。我们通过在线问卷平台的样本数据库收集了 780 份有效回复，并利用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）进一步分析数据。为了探索新闻框架造成的差异，我们根据新闻框架（行动框架与安慰框架）将受访者分为两组，并进行了多组分析。结果表明，四种结果预期（信息寻求、情绪调节、利他主义和公众参与）和习惯对公开和私下信息共享意图有影响。本研究提出的两条影响信息共享的路径得到了支持。结果表明，结果预期与习惯呈正相关，这意味着认知机制与习惯的形成正相关。研究结果证明了习惯在结果预期和信息共享之间发挥了中介作用。本研究发现，情绪调节和公众参与结果预期仅影响通过习惯中介的两种信息共享意图。关于新闻框架的作用，本研究发现，接触行动框架新闻的群体和接触安慰框架新闻的群体之间没有显著差异。通过探索新常态下信息共享的影响因素和机制，这些发现有助于理解信息共享，并对风险管理具有启示意义。所提出的将公开和私下信息共享分类的机制通过考虑在线风险孵化补充了风险信息的流动。
