What motivates Chinese consumers to avoid information about the COVID-19 pandemic?: The perspective of the stimulus-organism-response model

By Shijie Song, Xinlin Yao, Nainan Wen. Information Processing & Management, 2020

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Highlights • A research model based on S-O-R framework is proposed to examine the factors that influence health information avoidance intention during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Information avoidance in the COVID-19 pandemic is determined by consumers’ negative affect: sadness, anxiety, and cognitive dissonance.• Information avoidance intention influences consumers’ subsequent intentions of taking preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Consumer's negative affect is influenced by perceived threat and perceived information overload during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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