Using unofficial media, less trusting of Chinese polity?-An analysis based on the moderated mediation effect.

ABSTRACT: Enhancing political trust is an important manifestation of China's ability to modernisation national governance in the media age. In the context where unofficial media has a crowding-out effect on official media, building political trust effectively becomes an important foundation for promoting the construction of a national governance system. This study employs the 2015 survey data on social consciousness of netizens and constructs a moderated mediation model using the bootstrap method, with subjective well-being as the intermediary variable and official media use as the moderating variable, to empirically explore the influence of unofficial media use on political trust and its underlying mechanism. The results reveal that unofficial media use significantly and steadily deconstructing pol

SUBMITTER: Hu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10306219 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature