Toward a Theory of Motivated Information Management

By Walid A. Afifi, J. Weiner. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Online Information Seeking and Disease Prevention Intent During COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, background): “Negative emotions might directly trigger information seeking behavior, which can be viewed as a coping strategy to control fear and reduce uncertainty (Afifi & Weiner, 2004; Witte, 1994).”
Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why (2010, background): “Finally, the theory of motivated information management suggests that people are less likely to seek information if they feel that are unable to properly interpret the information (Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”
Incurious Motives to Seek Information about Potential Threats (2010, background): “According to the TMIM, trait-curiosity should not be involved in seeking information about potential threats, given that the primary reason for gathering the relevant information is hypothesized to be the reduction of worry, rather than the stimulation of interest or facilitation of intellectual enr”
Avoidance among adolescents in conversations about their parents’ relationship: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management (2009, methodology): “The theory argues that the proposed impact of outcome expectancies is, in large part, mediated by efficacy assessments (see W. Afifi & Weiner, 2004, for more detailed discussion of the proposed mediation).”
Relational Uncertainty and Relationship Talk within Courtship: A Longitudinal Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (2011, background): “…(Sunnafrank, 1986, 1990), uncertainty management theory (Brashers, 2001, 2007), and the theory of motivated information management (Afifi, 2010; Afifi & Weiner, 2004) coalesce around the idea that individuals will forgo a quest for information if they believe that maintaining uncertainty is…”
Motivated Processing (2015, background): “Drawing on uncertainty management (Afifi & Weiner, 2004; Brashers, 2001) and motivated processing (Kunda, 1990) literature, the current study reasons that when readers, who seek control over their health, consider health news that covers unpredictable and inconsistent findings, they likely feel…”
Seeking Information About Sexual Health: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management (2006, methodology): “Toward that effort, this investigation offers an empirical test of the Theory of Motivated Information Management (W. A. Afifi & Weiner, 2004), applying it to college students’ search for target-related sexual health information.”
The role of Facebook in romantic relationship development (2013, background): “The ease of accessing information via Facebook profiles, as well as the reduction of anxiety through asynchronous Facebook messaging, may impact individuals’ feelings of efficacy in information seeking (Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”
A Metacognitive Approach to Reconsidering Risk Perceptions and Uncertainty: Understand Information Seeking During COVID-19 (2020, background): “Risk communication research has thus shifted attention to desired levels of uncertainty (Rains & Tukachinsky, 2015) or the discrepancy between desired and actual uncertainty (Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”
Social Penetration Theory (2015, background): “The theory of motivated information management (Afifi & Weiner, 2004) suggests that people disclose or seek information based on uncertainty, expec tancies, and efficacy.”
The Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Three Science Communication Topics (2019, background): “Although most framing effects studies test effects in only one issue context, it is likely that effects of uncertainty frames are issue-specific because uncertainty is more tolerable about some things than about others (Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”
Operationalizing relational turbulence theory: Measurement and construct validation (2017, background): “Thus, testing relational turbulence theory requires operationalizations of relational uncertainty that emphasize the degree to which it is present, rather than the valence of that experience (cf. Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”
Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives (2016, methodology): “Two items assessing motivation to obtain protection-related information were created based on Afifi et al.’s (2006) operationalization of uncertainty discrepancy, which is a motivator of information management and/or seeking (Afifi & Weiner, 2004).”