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A Study on Public's Credibility, Risk Perception and Effectiveness of Nuclear Power Plant - Focused on comparison between the degree of risk and fear

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2015, 11(4), pp.123-140
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

SONG, HAE RYONG 1 wonje kim 1 Chanwon Kim 2

1성균관대학교
2성균관대학교 미디어문화콘텐츠연구소

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the public's credibility, risk perception and effectiveness of nuclear power plant focused on comparison between the degree of risk and fear. For the purpose, participants were classified as low-risk vs. high-risk in the degree of risk. Also, participants were classified as low-fear vs. high-fear in the degree of fear. The results revealed that high-risk group showed high scores on risk perception and effectiveness. And low-fear group showed high scores on credibility about supervisory authority and scientists associated with nuclear power plant, high-fear group showed high scores on risk perception about nuclear power plant. Second, low-fear group showed high scores on credibility about supervisory authority. And high-risk group change from low-fear to high-fear showed low scores on credibility about scientists, low-risk group change from low-fear to high-fear showed high scores on credibility about scientists. Also, high-risk group showed high scores on risk perception, high-fear group showed high scores on risk perception.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.