Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2020, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (1): 73-80.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2020.01.010

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The Influence Factor of Public Perceived Risk:A Two-dimensional Examination from Interest and Information——Based on the Empirical Analysis of L City

WANG Gang1, XU Ya-qian2   

  1. (1. School of International Affairs and Public Administration, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China; 2. School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China)
  • Received:2019-01-07 Revised:2019-01-07 Online:2020-01-25 Published:2020-01-19
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Abstract: At present, the explanation of the influencing factors of public risk perception in the academic circle mainly lies in three perspectives: the risk itself, the actors, and the intermediary carriers, but there is insufficient attention to the mechanism of benefits and information. To this end, the impact of interest and information saturation on public risk perception is analyzed through 791 data obtained from field and network surveys in L City. The results show the interest relationship between the public and risk projects is not conducive to the reduction of risk perception; the strengthening of the negative interest relationship will increase the public's risk perception; more saturated information can suppress the public's risk perception. Further investigation has found that positive interests, to some extent, dispel the strengthening of public risk perception by negative interests, and the knowledge related to risk and the degree of correlation between work background and risk significantly affect public risk perception. Therefore, the long-term mechanism to reduce the public risk perception is to reduce the degree of involvement of risk projects and the public interest, and to increase the public's information saturation in multiple ways.

Key words: interest association, information saturation, risk perception

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