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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2018.9.12.355

A study on Korean collegians' health perception toward Eggs contaminated with pesticide: Will preventive behavioral intention be predicted by perceived susceptibility and severity, trust in government, evaluation of information from government, and subjective knowledge?  

Joo, Jihyuk (Department of Journalism & Communication, Far East University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.9, no.12, 2018 , pp. 355-363 More about this Journal
Abstract
Found pesticide-contaminated eggs in 2017, the situation became a hot issue in many countries in the world as well as Korea. In the context of the pesticide-contaminated egg, this study explored that preventive behavioral intention would be predicted by perceived susceptibility and severity from health belief model, trust in the government and evaluation of information from the government, and subjective knowledge. We found that preventive behavioral intention was explained by perceived severity (${\beta}=.262$, t=3.531, p<0.001), trust in the government (${\beta}=.25$, t=3.281, p<0.001), and evaluation of the information from the government (${\beta}=.226$, t=2.936, p<0.01) through stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. The findings imply the government would administer policy in terms of credibility, accuracy, and consistency for decreasing the public's sense of unease and panic when a similar incident occurs.
Keywords
pesticide-contaminated egg; perceived severity; trust in the government; evaluation of information from the government; stepwise multiple linear regression analysis;
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