Source and Message Effects on Reactance to Conflict Reporting: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Hong Kong

Jingyi Pu; Xinzhi Zhang

Source and Message Effects on Reactance to Conflict Reporting: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Hong Kong

Department of Media and Communication

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

Political news uses conflict frames to illustrate the attacks and noncompromising among political camps. Informed by psychological reactance theory, the study implemented a population-based online survey experiment in Hong Kong (n = 1020) to investigate the political consequences of news sources and message features featuring local political conflicts on social media. Results found news with a consensus frame would trigger reactance as well as attitude polarization and restoration intentions, which was moderated by affective polarization.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 10 Aug 2024
Event	107th Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC 2024): Representation and Voice — The Future of Democracy - Philadelphia, United States Duration: 8 Aug 2024 → 11 Aug 2024 https://community.aejmc.org/conference/home

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Conference	107th Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC 2024)
Abbreviated title	AEJMC24
Country/Territory	United States
City	Philadelphia
Period	8/08/24 → 11/08/24
Internet address	https://community.aejmc.org/conference/home

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Source and Message Effects on Reactance to Conflict Reporting: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Hong Kong. / Pu, Jingyi ; Zhang, Xinzhi.
2024. Paper presented at 107th Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC 2024), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

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