Source Credibility, Risk Communication and Well-being: A Conceptual Framework

This paper intends to establish a conceptual framework and discuss theoretical issues related to understanding relationships between source credibility, risk communication and well-being in disaster management context. The key aim of the framework is to highlight the relationship between the variables in predicting well-being in Malaysian contexts. Few literature on source credibility, risk communication and well-being that constitute the building blocks of this model were discussed as the starting point for general framework. This concept paper discusses the relationships between variables and proposed an integrated model of the conceptual framework between the variables to fill in the gap identified from previous studies to establish a new context of disaster management. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.