Zhang Youliang, Tian Zhen, Zhou Ziwei, Huang Jing, Zhu Alex Yue Feng
Institute of Higher Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.
School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 12;13:1065059. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1065059. eCollection 2022.
Assessing the effect of different media sources on political trust provides an overall picture of the role of the current media landscape in influencing the legitimacy of political institutions.
A cross-lagged model was developed and tested by applying it to a three-wave dataset obtained by surveying young people in Hong Kong in order to evaluate the unique impact of intention to consume news personal social media network on political trust.
After controlling for the impact of other news channels and respondents' prior political interest, we found their political trust was most significantly affected by information intentionally obtained from friends and family through their personal social media network.
Media exhibits a relatively weak effect on political trust, which is primarily influenced by selection, indicating that policymakers do not have to be concerned with online exchange of information that is critical of the government. Moreover, this evidence from Hong Kong suggests that, when it comes to developing political trust throughout the society, conflicts resulting from opposing views are better than ignorance.
评估不同媒体来源对政治信任的影响，能全面了解当前媒体格局在影响政治机构合法性方面所起的作用。
通过将交叉滞后模型应用于对香港年轻人进行调查所获得的三波数据集，来开发和测试该模型，以评估消费新闻的意图、个人社交媒体网络对政治信任的独特影响。
在控制了其他新闻渠道和受访者先前政治兴趣的影响后，我们发现他们的政治信任受通过个人社交媒体网络从朋友和家人那里有意获取的信息影响最为显著。
媒体对政治信任的影响相对较弱，政治信任主要受选择性影响，这表明政策制定者不必担心批评政府的在线信息交流。此外，来自香港的这一证据表明，在全社会培养政治信任方面，观点对立引发的冲突比无知要好。
