Construction of College Students’ Information Verification Behavior Model

Huang Kun; Wang Xiaoyu; Hu Wenjin; Li Lei

doi:10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.11.010

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.11.010

INFORMATION RESEARCH

Construction of College Students’ Information Verification Behavior Model

Huang Kun ,
Wang Xiaoyu ,
Hu Wenjin ,
Li Lei

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School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875

Received date: 2022-11-11

Revised date: 2023-03-03

Online published: 2023-06-19

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[Purpose/Significance] The purpose of this article is to explore the information needs, motivations and behaviors of college students’ verification in daily life, so as to provide reference for improving their information identification ability. [Method/Process] 35 college students were randomly recruited for semi-structured interviews. After the coding and analysis of interview data, this paper built the information verification model of college students from two dimensions: verification stage and user’s cognition-emotion-behavior. [Result/Conclusion] The subject of college students’ information verification involves a wide range, mainly for the purpose of directionality or accuracy. In terms of emotion, confusion and doubt are the main emotions in the early stage of verification, and positive and negative emotions are generated with the elimination of uncertainty and the gap between the verification results and expectations in the middle and late stage of verification. In terms of cognition, users feel uncertainty or suspicious in the initial stage of verification. They feel clearer or continuous uncertainty during the process of verification. Then during the final stage, users confirm the uncertain information completely or partially, or disprove the information, or fail to verify the information. In terms of behavior, the main verification strategies include finding clues from the original publishing source of information, finding clues from third-party information that is not the original publishing source of information, and collecting first-hand information for verification by individuals. The results of verification are mainly used for the completion of practical tasks, the enhancement of cognition and understanding of things, and social communication. The proposed model could help to better understand the information adoption process of users, and provide countermeasures and suggestions for strengthening information literacy education and improving rumor dispelling platform.

Key words： information verification; information checking; information seeking behavior; college student

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Huang Kun , Wang Xiaoyu , Hu Wenjin , Li Lei . Construction of College Students’ Information Verification Behavior Model[J]. Library and Information Service, 2023 , 67(11) : 101 -114 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.11.010

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