Communal Risk Information Sharing: Motivations Behind Voluntary Information Sharing for Reducing Int...

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Beteiligte: Liao, Wang, Yuan, Y. Connie, McComas, Katherine A.
In: Communication Research, 45, 2018, 6, S. 909-933
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 909-933
ISSN: 0093-6502
1552-3810
DOI: 10.1177/0093650215626981
veröffentlicht in: Communication Research
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> This article extends our understanding of risk communication related to communal risk and risk information sharing. Building on research from risk communication, organizational behavior, and social psychology, it examines individual-, relation-, and community-level motivations to share information about a devastating plant disease. This disease can bring about substantial economic risk to everyone in a farming community. We tested our hypotheses using a national sample of U.S. tomato and potato growers ( N = 452). Our findings show that growers were motivated to share information about a communal risk based on (a) individual-oriented concerns for economic costs, (b) relation-oriented concerns for reciprocation and the information recipient’s trustworthiness, and (c) community-oriented concerns comprising a sense of shared responsibility and community cohesiveness. </jats:p>