Predictors of News Media Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Brief Research Report
Magdalena Iwanowska
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańskhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-9523
Blanka Kondratowicz
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańskhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-2924
Anna Maria Zawadzka
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańskhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1350-3881
Abstrakt
Aim: The research aimed to explore personal goals and COVID-19-related fear & worries as predictors of news media use during a health crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: A correlational online study was conducted with 371 subjects (Mage = 28.88, SDage = 10.25).
Results: The results showed that, as expected, the importance of the health goal and the level of COVID-19 fear & worries positively predicted news media use, and the importance placed on the exciting life goal negatively predicted news media use during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was no significant relationship between the safety goal and news media use. However, the study revealed that COVID-19 fear & worries partially mediated the relationship between the safety goal and news media use.
Conclusions: Study confirms that personal goals and negative emotions related to a crisis play an important role in understanding how and why people use the news media in a crisis. The limitations of the study and theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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personal goals, news media use, COVID-19 fear & worries, COVID-19 pandemicBibliografia
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Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-9523
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-2924
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1350-3881
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