Insights into the reception and acceptance of risk messages: nuclear emergency communication

摘要: The objective of this paper is to test whether the effect variables such as knowledge, attitudes, trust, risk perception, and psychometric characteristics changes in different stages risk-related information processing. To address question, a distinction made between two information-processing steps, reception (measured person’s ability retain communicated) acceptance level agreement with communicated information). An empirical study was conducted, using radiological accident (2008) Belgium communication case study. Face-to-face interviews were conducted on large sample Belgian population representative respect province, region, urbanization, gender, age, professionally active status (N = 1031) among living vicinity (N = 104). All factors measured reliable scales (Cronbach’s α > .75). reception–acceptance model used produce new insig...