التماس الجمهور اليمني للمعلومات من وسائل الاتصال التقليدية و الحديثة حول جائحة كورونا و علاقته بالاستجابات السلوكية لهم

Abstract EN

The study dealt with the relationship between the Yemeni public's seeking of information from traditional and modern means of communication about the corona pandemic and the achieved cognitive, emotional and behavioural re sponses, and it monitored the role of some important variables such as demo graphic variables, fear variables and risk perception.

the study concluded that the public's interest in information about corona was average, and that the communication activity of nearly half of the respondents was low, especially among females, and the most important communication sources about the pandemic were family, friends and doctors, then some social networking applications and websites, especially WhatsApp and then television, and it was the most important the information that the public is seeking about the corona epidemic is about preventive methods, then about the symptoms, then about the causes, and the motive to protect oneself and the family from the danger of the epidemic is the public's motives in seeking information, then the motive to get rid of the feeling of anxiety and fear, and the respondents showed a good level of knowledge about information about symptoms.

and how to pre vent, and one of the most important psychological effects caused by the spread of the epidemic : anxiety and fear, and the level of the respondents' behavioural response towards precautionary measures against the corona epidemic was high, and the study showed a positive and significant correlation between the rate of public seeking information from modern and traditional means of com munication and their positive behavioural responses.