Avoidance as an exit door for international students in dealing with information overload during the pandemic

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Hanny Hafiar
Ari Agung Prastowo
Anissa Lestari Kadiyono
Kholidil Amin
Hussein Gibreel Musa

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education systems and impacted students' mental health negatively. This condition may affect international students in a certain country. International students' problems are made more complicated by differences in culture, language, and the way local governments handle pandemics, especially upon socializing COVID-19 information. This study aims to examine international students’ behavior in Indonesia in regard with COVID-19 information consumption massively spread in both local and international media. It applied PLS-SEM to evaluate measurement and structural models. The results demonstrated that Information seeking and exposure cause the information overload. Information overload leads to anxiety, and anxiety brings about avoidance from COVID-19 information. Furthermore, Information overload does not have a significant direct effect on information avoidance. However, information overload affects information avoidance mediated by information anxiety. Therefore, it is advisable for government media to provide complete and accurate information related to COVID-19, especially that for international students.


Keywords: Information anxiety; information avoidance; information exposure; information seeking; information overload.

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Hafiar, H., Prastowo , A. A. ., Kadiyono, A. L., Amin , K., & Musa , H. G. . (2022). Avoidance as an exit door for international students in dealing with information overload during the pandemic. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 17(12), 4794–4808. https://doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v17i12.7968
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Hanny Hafiar, Universitas Padjadjaran, Faculty of Communication Science, Sumedang Regency, Indonesia

Faculty of Communication

Ari Agung Prastowo , Universitas Padjadjaran, Faculty of Communication Science, Sumedang Regency, Indonesia

Faculty of Communication

Anissa Lestari Kadiyono, Universitas Padjadjaran, Faculty of Psychology, Sumedang Regency, Indonesia

Faculty of Psychology

Kholidil Amin , Universitas Padjadjaran, Faculty of Communication Science, Sumedang Regency, Indonesia

Faculty of Communication Science

Hussein Gibreel Musa , University of El Geneina, Faculty of Communication Science, Sudan, Indonesia

International Program for Islamic Economics and Finance