Slater Michael D, Lawrence Frank, Comello Maria Leonora G
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1339, USA.
J Health Commun. 2009 Apr-May;14(3):262-75. doi: 10.1080/10810730902805838.
Data from a national random-digit dial survey (N = 1,272) were analyzed to examine the influence of news media use on alcohol-control policy support, and to test whether risk judgments and concern about alcohol-related risks mediated effects of news media use variables on support for various types of alcohol-control public policies. In so doing, we test the proposition that perceptions influenced by routine coverage of events such as crime or accidents may in part explain news effects on public policy support in the domain of health policy. Analyses indicated that the (positive) influence of attention to news about crime and accidents on support for increasing enforcement of existing alcohol control laws and militing marketing of alcohol products was mediated by concern about risks of alcohol-related injuries and by perceptions of the alcohol-attributable fraction of homicides and unintended injury fatalities. Tests of model fit suggest that concern precedes the more cognitive risk judgment in the mediation model.
对一项全国随机数字拨号调查（N = 1272）的数据进行了分析，以检验新闻媒体使用对酒精控制政策支持的影响，并测试风险判断和对酒精相关风险的担忧是否介导了新闻媒体使用变量对各类酒精控制公共政策支持的影响。在此过程中，我们检验了这样一个命题，即受犯罪或事故等事件的常规报道影响的认知，可能部分解释了新闻对卫生政策领域公共政策支持的影响。分析表明，关注犯罪和事故新闻对支持加强现有酒精控制法律的执行以及对酒精产品营销的限制的（积极）影响，是由对酒精相关伤害风险的担忧以及对杀人案和意外伤害死亡中酒精所致比例的认知所介导的。模型拟合检验表明，在中介模型中，担忧先于认知性更强的风险判断。
