Working Through an "Infodemic": The Impact of COVID-19 News Consumption on Employee Uncertainty and Work Behaviors

Uncertainty is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, because uncertainty is an aversive state, uncertainty reduction theory (URT) holds that employees try to manage it by obtaining information. To date, most evidence for the effectiveness of obtaining information to reduce uncertaint...

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Published in:	Journal of applied psychology 2021-04, Vol.106 (4), p.501-517
Main Authors:	Yoon, Seoin, McClean, Shawn T., Chawla, Nitya, Kim, Ji Koung, Koopman, Joel, Rosen, Christopher C., Trougakos, John P., McCarthy, Julie M.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Adult Anxiety Aversion Aversive Conceptual models Consumption Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - psychology Creativity Crises Death & dying Death Anxiety Effectiveness Employees Employment - psychology Female Goal Orientation Human Humans Information Job performance Male Mass Media News News Media Occupational Aspirations Pandemics Sampling SARS-CoV-2 Teleworking Uncertainty Work Work (Attitudes Toward) Workplace - psychology
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