Does Information Pattern Affect Risk Perception of Food Safety? A National Survey in China

Han, Guanghua; Liu, Yihong

doi:10.3390/ijerph15091935

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“…This finding validates that government performance and economic interests promote governmental trust. Economic growth is not only about the increase and expansion of wealth but also reflects the growth of people’s actual welfare and the improvement of their quality of life [35]. Meanwhile, the sustainability of economic growth depends on the transformation and optimization of the economic structure, where the government plays an important role in controlling the overall economic trends, economic regulation and the optimization of resource allocation.…”

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Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public’s Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China

Han

Yan

2019

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This paper studies the impacts of food safety risk perception on the different dimensions of governmental trust. A logistic regression model was constructed based on the multidimensional analysis of government trust (i.e., competence, benevolence and honesty) with food safety risk perception, economic growth, combating corruption, social trust, political participation and demographic characteristics as explanatory variables. The main findings are that respondents with low levels of food risk perception, high political participation and a positive evaluation of economic growth and anti-corruption performance show high levels of trust in government competence, benevolence and honesty. Social trust has a spillover effect, which has a significant impact on government competence and benevolence but has no significant impact on the honesty of the government, which reflects the distinction between different dimensions of the public’s trust in their government. Highly educated people have low levels of trust in government competence, high levels of trust in government benevolence, and no significant impact on the judgment of government honesty. In general, the public speak lowly of the status of food safety and have limited interest in political participation. The government is better to strengthen food safety supervision and develop social capital to further enhance the public’s governmental trust.

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Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public’s Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China

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Yan

2019

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“…Food safety concerns in China are still severe, and China is still facing threats and challenges from many food safety risk factors [3]. Food safety is still one of the extremely serious issues of public concern in China and the public perceive lots of food safety risk and anxieties [6].…”

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Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

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Consumers’ food safety risk information-seeking behavior plays a vital role in improving their food quality and safety awareness and preventing food safety risks. Based on the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model (RISP), this paper empirically analyzes the food safety risk information-seeking intention of consumers in WeChat and influencing factors under the impact of food safety incidents. We use data from 774 WeChat users and apply the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. We also conduct multigroup analysis with demographic characteristics as moderating variables. The results demonstrated that: (1) Risk perception (p ≤ 0.01) has direct significant positive effects on consumers’ intention to seek food safety information. Besides, higher risk perception (p ≤ 0.01) regarding food safety risks will make people feel more anxious and threatened, and then expand the gap between the information they need and the relevant knowledge they actually have (p ≤ 0.1), which will further stimulate them to seek more information (p ≤ 0.05). (2) Informational subjective norms (p ≤ 0.01) can not only directly affect consumers’ information-seeking about food safety, but also indirectly affect consumers’ intention through information insufficiency (p ≤ 0.01). (3) The more consumers trust the relevant channels (p ≤ 0.01), the stronger their intention to search for food safety risk information. Moreover, the multiple-group analysis also shows that the effects of consumers’ gender, age, educational background, and average monthly earnings are different among different groups. Furthermore, implications are put forward for food safety risk communication efforts in China.

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“…Some scholars have found that perceptions of food safety risk are closely linked with socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics [ 20 ]. Thus, some studies have focused on the relationship between demographic factors and perceptions of food safety [ 21 ] and the influences of socioeconomic factors on respondents’ perceptions of food safety [ 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. Some studies observed the influences of demographic factors (e.g., gender, age, educational level, income, marriage) and socioeconomic factors (e.g., consumers’ knowledge of policy, media exposure, information pattern, state employment) based on data from different countries or regions.…”

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Regional Regulations and Public Safety Perceptions of Quality-of-Life Issues: Empirical Study on Food Safety in China

2020

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In many developing countries, the public is shifting its focus from economic growth to quality-of-life issues. As a result, there is extensive demand for better public administration of quality-of-life issues, ranging from air pollution to food safety problems, that threaten ordinary peoples’ health and daily lives. This article analyzes the determinants of public perceptions of food safety and the administrative effects of regional governance in different provinces with nationwide survey data. A two-level hierarchical linear regression model (HLM) with provincial factors as background-level variables and demographic factors as individual-level variables was developed to measure the influence of these factors on public perceptions of food safety. The results showed that female, young, and well-educated urban residents perceived greater risks to food safety than other groups. Administrative fiscal expenditures and local normative documents in different provinces did not have significant effects on public perceptions of food safety. However, food safety inspections weakened public perceptions of food safety. We thereby suggest that provincial governments invest in more efficient food safety projects and enhance the publicity of normative documents in popular media.

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Does Information Pattern Affect Risk Perception of Food Safety? A National Survey in China

Cited by 26 publications

References 31 publications

Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public’s Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China

Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public’s Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China

Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

Regional Regulations and Public Safety Perceptions of Quality-of-Life Issues: Empirical Study on Food Safety in China

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