School of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
College of Marxism, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 5;19(17):11140. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191711140.
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, media exposure is crucial to motivate public action for the combat with COVID-19 pandemic. However, media effects on civic participation intention are understudied. This study applied the Differential Susceptibility to Media effects Model (DSMM) to explore the relations among Wuhan college students' media use, their pandemic-relevant beliefs, and civic participation intention, with a focus on the possible mediation of pandemic-relevant beliefs. Data of 4355 students from a large-scale cross-sectional survey were analyzed. Results show that traditional media use and online media interaction both directly and indirectly affect civic participation intention via pandemic-relevant beliefs. Pandemic-relevant beliefs distort the relations that direct and indirect effects of new media use on civic participation intention are significant but in opposite directions. The influence of pandemic news on civic participation intention is entirely mediated by pandemic-relevant beliefs. To conclude, during pandemic, the role of traditional media use is unreplaceable in its direct and indirect impact on civic participation intention. Pandemic-relevant beliefs play as a distorter variable. The balance between overexposure and insufficiency of pandemic-relevant news is vital. Online media interaction, as a main trait of new media use, plays a crucial role in civic participation intention, directly and indirectly.
在 COVID-19 大流行的背景下，媒体接触对于激发公众参与抗击 COVID-19 大流行的行动至关重要。然而，媒体对公民参与意愿的影响仍研究不足。本研究应用媒介敏感性差异模型（DSMM）来探讨武汉大学生的媒体使用、与大流行相关的信念与公民参与意愿之间的关系，重点关注与大流行相关的信念的可能中介作用。对一项大规模横断面调查的 4355 名学生进行了数据分析。结果表明，传统媒体使用和在线媒体互动均通过与大流行相关的信念直接和间接地影响公民参与意愿。与大流行相关的信念扭曲了直接和间接影响新的媒体使用对公民参与意愿的关系，这些关系的方向相反。对公民参与意愿的影响完全由与大流行相关的信念所中介。总之，在大流行期间，传统媒体使用在直接和间接影响公民参与意愿方面的作用是不可替代的。与大流行相关的信念起着扭曲变量的作用。大流行相关新闻的过度暴露和不足之间的平衡至关重要。在线媒体互动作为新媒体使用的主要特征，直接和间接地对公民参与意愿起着至关重要的作用。
