Risk perception in Korea: an application of psychometric paradigm

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Jin Cha
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm

scholarly journals The Perception of Food Products in Adolescents, Lay Adults, and Experts: A Psychometric Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Perkovic ◽  
Tobias Otterbring ◽  
Corina Schärli ◽  
Thorsten Pachur
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Dietary Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
High Degree

With nearly 40% of global mortality attributable to dietary factors, citizens are encouraged to eat more healthily. But how do people conceptualize healthy foods—and how is this conceptualization embedded in their cognitive representations of food ecology? Adolescents, lay adults, and nutritional experts rated a large, heterogeneous set of food products on a diverse set of characteristics, and we applied the psychometric paradigm pioneered in risk-perception research to identify the dimensions structuring the cognitive representations of those foods. We then used the foods’ scores on these dimensions to predict respondents’ judgments of the healthiness of those foods. Animal-based nutrients (e.g., cholesterol, fat, protein) and naturalness levels (e.g., processing, artificial additives) were the two central dimensions structuring respondent representations of the foods. Relative to the other two groups, the adolescents’ representations were less differentiated. Perceived healthiness was determined by multiple factors, but its strongest predictor was a food’s naturalness. These structures emerged for all respondent groups, but there was a high degree of variability among the adolescents.

scholarly journals Risk-Perception Formation Considering Tangible and Non-Tangible Aspects of Cycling: A Flemish Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zain Ul-Abdin ◽  
Pieter De Winne ◽  
Hans De Backer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Unknown Risk ◽  
The Difference

Risk perception influences cycling attributes toward its adoption. Researchers are investigating attributes associated with risk formation. In this study, various attributes were selected which influence the user’s formation of risk perception. For this purpose, an online questionnaire survey was conducted in Flanders, among all segments of the population (N = 774). Participants were asked questions for attributes relating to risk formation. Results suggested that risk formation among users evolves around tangible to non-tangible attributes. The spectrum of risk perception was developed which visualizes risk evolution, considering various attributes. Surprisingly, elements such as “comfort”, surface evenness, and policies were rated as being neutral. Infrastructure and the presence of opposite road users tend to be foreseen as critical factors for risk formation. Risk perception varies depending upon psychometric paradigm shifts, such as dread and unknown risk. This strange notion is considered to lie in a space between dread and unknown risk. This explains the difference in risk perception, knowingly or not knowingly (subconsciously), yet expressing cognitively and evolving inside. This is an interesting finding, but reasons behind such a motive need to be explained. A possible explanation behind such behavior is that people tend to change their responses due to knowledge acquisition during the survey.

scholarly journals The perception of flood risk and water nuisance

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 431-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Terpstra ◽  
J.M. Gutteling ◽  
G.D. Geldof ◽  
L.J. Kappe
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Bench Mark ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Explained Variance ◽  
Different Characteristics

In this paper we applied the psychometric paradigm to validate a questionnaire that assesses the risk perception characteristics of flooding and water nuisance. The state-trait anxiety inventory was used as a bench mark to determine whether perceptions are related to anxiety characteristics. A focus group was used to further validate the questionnaire. Factor analyses of 49 questionnaires identified eight flooding factors (explained variance 74%) and three water nuisance factors (explained variance 62%). Internal consistencies of the obtained scales were moderate to high. Like in the perception of external safety risks, “dread” seems to be the most important concept binding different characteristics. Although dread towards both flooding and water nuisance is rather low, it seems more present in the latter case. Furthermore, the extent of dread for water nuisance seems related to someone's state anxiety. In both cases awareness of “increasing risks” is clearly present, and we find the characteristics “(no) dread”, “(un)controllable situation” and “does not affect me” to be related.

scholarly journals Risk Literacy and Environmental Education: Does Exposure to Academic Environmental Education Make a Difference in How Students Perceive Ecological Risks and Evaluate Their Risk Severity?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Carmi ◽  
Iris Alkaher
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Ecological Risks ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm ◽  
Risk Prioritization ◽  
Risk Literacy

Developed understanding of environmental problems, consequences, and risks constitutes a core target of environmental education (EE). Ecological risks (ERs) are inherently complex, interconnected, and subject to perceptual biases. To explore whether an exposure to EE in academia improves ER literacy, we compared ER perception of students who were exposed to EE (“EE majors”) with students who were not (“non-EE majors”) Drawing on the psychometric paradigm from risk perception research, we compared ER perception between the two groups to identify whether the students perceive, appraise, and prioritize ERs differently, and whether they provide different reasons for their decisions and evaluations. We found significant differences in the perception of overall severity of environmental problems, especially of the less “popular” and familiar ones, characterized by global, complex, and extensive consequences. Compared to non-EE majors, EE majors perceived most ERs as more certain, personal, and temporally and spatially close. Risk prioritization and the reasons given for these choices also differed; EE major students’ choices were mostly guided by holistic reasons, whereas the non-EE major students’ explanations were more anthropocentric or one-dimensional. The discussion focused on the importance of ER literacy in reducing misconceptions of environmental problems and on developing an informed assessment of their severity.

Participant‐focused analysis: explanatory power of the classic psychometric paradigm in risk perception

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 735-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás C. Bronfman ◽  
Luis Abdón Cifuentes ◽  
Virna Vaneza Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Psychometric Paradigm

Risk Perception In Chemistry Laboratories Among Undergraduate Students

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz S. Marin ◽  
Mariona Portell ◽  
Clara Rosalia Alvarez ◽  
Francisca Munoz ◽  
Luis Velazquez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Chemistry Laboratories

A longitudinal perspective on women's risk perception

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. White ◽  
P. H. Smith ◽  
J. A. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception
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