Grene Kathleen L, Dharani Amani S, Siegel Michael B
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Prev Med Rep. 2023 Jul 17;35:102324. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102324. eCollection 2023 Oct.
Gun violence prevention is often viewed as polarizing, although gun owners actually support many gun safety policies. The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between gun owners' perceptions of other gun owners' support for gun policies and their own individual support for such policies. NORC at the University of Chicago, which uses a panel of adults recruited through probability sampling, conducted an online/phone survey of 1,078 adult gun owners. Respondents were asked about their individual support for seven gun safety policies and their perceptions of other gun owners' support for those policies. We used two-sample t-tests and multivariate logistic regression analyses to explore the relationship between perceived and individual support. We found that gun owners underestimated fellow gun owners' support for gun violence prevention policy, especially if they personally opposed that policy. Gun owners' perception of fellow gun owners' support for a policy was significantly associated with the likelihood of individual support for that policy for all laws examined. These findings have important implications for correcting misperceptions of the level of gun owner support for gun safety policies as well as conducting and targeting educational campaigns to respond to and correct media misinformation.
预防枪支暴力往往被视为一个两极分化的问题，尽管枪支拥有者实际上支持许多枪支安全政策。本文的目的是调查枪支拥有者对其他枪支拥有者对枪支政策的支持的看法与他们自己对这些政策的个人支持之间的关系。芝加哥大学的全国民意研究中心通过概率抽样招募了一组成年人，对1078名成年枪支拥有者进行了在线/电话调查。受访者被问及他们对七项枪支安全政策的个人支持以及他们对其他枪支拥有者对这些政策的支持的看法。我们使用双样本t检验和多元逻辑回归分析来探讨感知支持与个人支持之间的关系。我们发现，枪支拥有者低估了其他枪支拥有者对预防枪支暴力政策的支持，特别是如果他们个人反对该政策。对于所有审查的法律，枪支拥有者对其他枪支拥有者对一项政策的支持的看法与个人支持该政策的可能性显著相关。这些发现对于纠正对枪支拥有者对枪支安全政策支持程度的误解，以及开展和定位教育活动以回应和纠正媒体错误信息具有重要意义。
