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cord-355383-cqd2pa8c	Olagoke, Ayokunle A.	Exposure to coronavirus news on mainstream media: The role of risk perceptions and depression	2020-05-16		.txt	text/plain	2844	158	46	In an attempt to stimulate public response, threat perception, and persuade people to comply with the preventive policies and regulations, the mainstream media rely on producing news contents that will increase the perceived self-efficacy to protect, vulnerability to the disease, and severity of the pandemic outbreaks (Bish & Michie, 2010; Park, Boatwright, & Avery, 2019; Pieri, 2019) . The objective of this study was to examine the association between exposure to COVID-19-related news on mainstream media, risk perceptions, and depressive symptoms. Participants reported exposure to COVID-19 news on mainstream media as 2.73 AE 0.91, depressive symptoms (1.92 AE 0.93), perceived severity (3.73 AE 1.19), perceived vulnerability (3.67 AE 1.07) and, self-efficacy (4.01 AE 0.67). Standardized mediation tests showed perceived vulnerability as mediating 34.4% (bias-corrected 95% CI = 7.79-149.35) of the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 news on mainstream media and depressive symptoms (Figure 1 ) with an indirect effect of b = .04; 95%CI = 0.01-0.06. In this study of 501 participants, perceived vulnerability mediated the relationship between exposure to COVID-19 news on the mainstream media and depressive symptoms.	./cache/cord-355383-cqd2pa8c.txt	./txt/cord-355383-cqd2pa8c.txt