TY - JOUR
T1 - Unofficial media, government trust, and system confidence evidence from China:
T2 - an empirical exploration of the attitudes of netizens based on the dual moderating effect
AU - Chen, Caijuan
AU - Li, Li
AU - Ye, Jie
PY - 2022/1/14
Y1 - 2022/1/14
N2 - Mass media has a significant impact on public support for the government. This manuscript constructs a mixed model with official media use as the moderating variable and government trust as the intermediary variable to explore the mechanism of how unofficial media use affects system confidence, using data from a survey of the political and social attitudes of netizens (2015). The study finds that official media use weakens the negative role of unofficial media use in building system confidence, with the intermediary variable of government trust creating the necessary conditions for weakening the effect of unofficial media use. Moreover, the effect of unofficial media use on system confidence is heterogeneous. These findings remind us that it is necessary to deepen research into the micromechanisms that explain how unofficial media use reduces system confidence, a task for which cognitive theory is well suited.
AB - Mass media has a significant impact on public support for the government. This manuscript constructs a mixed model with official media use as the moderating variable and government trust as the intermediary variable to explore the mechanism of how unofficial media use affects system confidence, using data from a survey of the political and social attitudes of netizens (2015). The study finds that official media use weakens the negative role of unofficial media use in building system confidence, with the intermediary variable of government trust creating the necessary conditions for weakening the effect of unofficial media use. Moreover, the effect of unofficial media use on system confidence is heterogeneous. These findings remind us that it is necessary to deepen research into the micromechanisms that explain how unofficial media use reduces system confidence, a task for which cognitive theory is well suited.
KW - government trust
KW - official media use
KW - political communication effects
KW - system confidence
KW - unofficial media use
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123586825&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763658
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763658
M3 - Article
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 763658
ER -