Information Seeking and Information Avoidance among University Students: Focusing on Health and other Information

• 영문명: Information Seeking and Information Avoidance among University Students: Focusing on Health and other Information
• 발행기관: 한국식품보건융합학회
• 저자명: Kapseon KIM
• 간행물 정보: 『식품보건융합연구』제10권 2호, 25~34쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 복합학 > 과학기술학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.03.30

영문 초록

This study aims to investigate whether information awareness, search purpose, and search expectations influence information avoidance among university students. The data were collected by using a self-completion questionnaire with convenience sampling of students from one university. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple regression using R 4.2.3. The main results are as follows: First, both search purpose and search expectations exhibited a significant inverse correlation with all information avoidance dependent variables. Second, there was a significant difference in the mean of search expectations across majors, such that science majors had higher search expectations than humanities majors. Third, there were significant differences in the means of the information avoidance-system and information avoidance variables by major, such that both variables had lower means for the science than the humanities group. Fourth, among the independent variables, search expectation had a significant effect on information avoidance-personal: the higher the search expectation variable, the lower the information avoidance-personal variable. This study confirmed that information avoidance should not only consider the psychological, emotional, and affective aspects of information seekers, but also that information seekers’ information search purpose and search expectations are predictors of information avoidance.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Research Methods

3. Research Results

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

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키워드

Information Behavior Information Seeking Information Avoidance Information Awareness Search Purpose