The Effects of Precautionary Messages about Electromagnetic Fields from Mobile Phones and Base Stations Revisited: The Role of Recipient Characteristics risk

Risk perception

• personal risk estimation

Endpoint

• relationship between personality characteristics (e.g., gender, personal need for structure, personal fear of invalidity and trait anxiety) and the reception of precautionary messages; effect of increased threat perception on emotional distress

Considered exposure sources

• • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station
• • residential
  • personal

Investigated group

A total of 298 university students in Australia answered a survey after reading either a basic text about radiofrequency electromagnetic fields or a text including precautionary information.