@article{ref1,
title="Communication factors influencing flood-risk-mitigation motivation and intention among college students",
journal="Weather, climate, and society",
year="2020",
author="Rainear, Adam M. and Lin, Carolyn A.",
volume="13",
number="1",
pages="125-135",
abstract="When attempting to communicate flood risk, trust in and perceptions toward risk information dissemination as well as individual efficacy factors can play a significant role in affecting risk-mitigation motivation and intention. This study seeks to examine how risk communication, risk perception, and efficacy factors affect evacuation motivation and behavioral intentions in response to a presumed flood risk, as based on a conceptual framework guided by protection motivation theory. An online survey was administered to college students (<em>N</em> = 239) from a region that is subject to sea level rise and storm surges. Path analysis results indicate that, while less information-source trust predicts greater risk perception, greater information-source trust predicts greater mitigation-information-seeking intention, lower self-efficacy, and stronger response efficacy. As lower mitigation-information-seeking intention similarly predicts greater risk perception, greater mitigation-information-seeking intention also predicts stronger response efficacy. Significant predictors of evacuation motivation include lower risk perception as well as greater information-source trust, severity perception, and response efficacy. Implications of these findings are discussed in terms of information dissemination channels, messaging strategies, and recent severe flooding events.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1948-8327",
doi="10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0016.1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0016.1"
}