AUTHOR=Mensah Isaac Kofi , Khan Muhammad Khalil , Liang Juan , Zhu Nan , Lin Li-Wei , Mwakapesa Deborah Simon 

TITLE=The moderating influence of perceived government information transparency on COVID-19 pandemic information adoption on social media systems

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172094

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172094

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Social media systems are instrumental in the dissemination of timely COVID-19 pandemic information to the general population and contribute to the fight against the pandemic and waves of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses the information adoption model (IAM) as the theoretical framework to examine the moderating influence of perceived government information transparency on the adoption of COVID-19 pandemic information on social media systems from the Ghanaian perspective. It applies a convenient sampling technique to collect the responses from 516 participants by using self-administrated questionnaires. The results indicate that information quality, information credibility, and information usefulness are significant drivers of COVID-19 pandemic information adoption on social media systems. Furthermore, the perceived government information transparency positively moderates the influence of information quality, information credibility, and information usefulness on the adoption of COVID-19 pandemic information on social media systems. The theoretical and managerial implications of these findings suggest the utilization of social media systems as an effective tool to support the continued fight against the current COVID-19 pandemic and its future role in national and global public health emergencies.