Toward a cognitive-affective process model of hostile media perceptions: A multi-country structural equation modeling approach

Autor(en)
Jörg Matthes, Audrun Beyer
Abstrakt

This article develops and tests a theoretical cognitive-affective process model of the hostile media effect (HME). To explain the HME, scholars have mainly focused on cognitive involvement, that is, the extent to which an issue is of personal importance. In addition, we introduce the notion of affective involvement and hypothesize three distinct routes responsible for a HME: a cognitive, an affective, and a cognitive-affective route. Simultaneously collected representative survey data from the United States, Norway, and France employing country-invariant measures provide clear evidence that the three routes each and independently drive the HME. Theoretical and methodological implications of these findings are discussed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Oslo (UiO)
Journal
Communication Research (CR)
Band
44
Seiten
1075-1098
Anzahl der Seiten
24
ISSN
0093-6502
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215594234
Publikationsdatum
12-2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Communication, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/toward-a-cognitiveaffective-process-model-of-hostile-media-perceptions-a-multicountry-structural-equation-modeling-approach(85da066f-31d6-494d-8c99-dbbccd651d91).html