La Barbera Francesco
a University of Naples Federico II.
J Soc Psychol. 2015;155(6):617-35. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2015.1041446. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
The present study investigated the effects of framing the European Union (EU) as a common project vs. a common heritage on participants' attitude towards EU integration (Experiment 1) and EU enlargement (Experiment 2). An additional aim was exploring whether the different frames affected the strength of identification with the EU, and if the framing effect on attitudes was mediated by participants' identification with the EU and/or by their message evaluation (Experiment 3). Results showed that a common project-based frame was more effective than a common heritage-based frame in promoting positive attitude toward EU integration and enlargement, as well as participants' identification with the EU, which mediated the framing effect on both attitudes; the mediation of participants' message evaluation was not significant. The procedure of the last experiment was replicated on a British sample (Experiment 4), showing a similar pattern of results.
本研究调查了将欧盟（EU）构建为一个共同项目与构建为一种共同遗产，对参与者关于欧盟一体化的态度（实验1）和欧盟扩大的态度（实验2）的影响。另一个目标是探究不同的框架是否会影响对欧盟认同的强度，以及框架对态度的影响是否通过参与者对欧盟的认同和/或他们对信息的评估来介导（实验3）。结果表明，基于共同项目的框架在促进对欧盟一体化和扩大的积极态度以及参与者对欧盟的认同方面，比基于共同遗产的框架更有效，而这种认同介导了框架对两种态度的影响；参与者对信息评估的介导作用不显著。最后一个实验的程序在英国样本上进行了重复（实验4），结果呈现出相似的模式。
