Citation

Sjoberg L. Risk Anal. 1998; 18(1): 85-93.

Affiliation

Center for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Society for Risk Analysis, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9523446

Abstract

Risk perception is sometimes measured by means of judgments about worry, sometimes as perceived risk more directly. However, perceived level of risk calls for a more intellectual judgment and worry tends to refer to emotional reactions. These two are therefore not the same and need not be strongly correlated. Results reported here show that perceived risk and worry are indeed weakly correlated, both for generalized worry and for more specific measures of worry matched with the same hazard as risk ratings. A distinction is suggested between cognitive, abstract hazards and concrete, sensory hazards, with implications for the worry-perceived risk relationship. It was furthermore found by means of cluster analysis that there were groups of subject displaying different dynamics of risk and worry.

Language: en