Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication
The pandemic process, in general, is a process that creates anxiety due to reasons such as confusion, instability, misinformation and inadequate planning. Within the scope of this study, the assumption that the personality traits of individuals are effective in getting information and taking the req...
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| description | The pandemic process, in general, is a process that creates anxiety due to reasons such as confusion, instability, misinformation and inadequate planning. Within the scope of this study, the assumption that the personality traits of individuals are effective in getting information and taking the required measures while carrying out the health communication during COVID-19 pandemic, and from the question of whether the individual differences can be associated with the inclination for information receipt or not. This scope of this study aims to measure how the communication of the COVID-19 epidemic towards the Turkish people affects the individuals’ preferences for information, the relationships between the sources they trust, and their individual differences based on the Big-5 factors, within the framework of the five major personality traits. This quantitative study, firstly aims to investigate the information-seeking behavior of the Turkish public in relation to their perceptions of COVID-19 and the impact of messages received from the media. Secondly, it is aimed to measure how the COVID-19 pandemic communication affects the relationships among the media sources they trust in their choices of information. While the trust inhealth care professionals and independent health care associatons were the highest among the individuals who participated in the survey, those who have the responsibility personality trait, trust in the content of COVID-19 messages for government agencies is low. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4fedc13754424f97b3cc3c995ee4a22b2025-01-26T18:31:08ZengMarmara UniversityTürkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi2630-62202022-06-0140648110.17829/turcom.10506013Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communicationİnanç Alikılıç0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-8420Özlem Alikılıç1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6311-2622Ebru Gökaliler2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4134-8447TURGUT ÖZAL ÜNİVERSİTESİYAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİYAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİThe pandemic process, in general, is a process that creates anxiety due to reasons such as confusion, instability, misinformation and inadequate planning. Within the scope of this study, the assumption that the personality traits of individuals are effective in getting information and taking the required measures while carrying out the health communication during COVID-19 pandemic, and from the question of whether the individual differences can be associated with the inclination for information receipt or not. This scope of this study aims to measure how the communication of the COVID-19 epidemic towards the Turkish people affects the individuals’ preferences for information, the relationships between the sources they trust, and their individual differences based on the Big-5 factors, within the framework of the five major personality traits. This quantitative study, firstly aims to investigate the information-seeking behavior of the Turkish public in relation to their perceptions of COVID-19 and the impact of messages received from the media. Secondly, it is aimed to measure how the COVID-19 pandemic communication affects the relationships among the media sources they trust in their choices of information. While the trust inhealth care professionals and independent health care associatons were the highest among the individuals who participated in the survey, those who have the responsibility personality trait, trust in the content of COVID-19 messages for government agencies is low.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/2165260güvenbeş büyükkişilik özellikleripandemi i̇letişimicovid-19trustbig fivepersonality traitspandemic communicationcovid-19 |
| spellingShingle | İnanç Alikılıç Özlem Alikılıç Ebru Gökaliler Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi güven beş büyük kişilik özellikleri pandemi i̇letişimi covid-19 trust big five personality traits pandemic communication covid-19 |
| title | Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication |
| title_full | Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication |
| title_fullStr | Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication |
| title_short | Trust and Media: Reflection of the Big Five Factor Personality Traits on COVID-19 Pandemic Communication |
| title_sort | trust and media reflection of the big five factor personality traits on covid 19 pandemic communication |
| topic | güven beş büyük kişilik özellikleri pandemi i̇letişimi covid-19 trust big five personality traits pandemic communication covid-19 |
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