Just a Glance, or More? Pathways from Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure to Attitude (De)Polarization Through Response Behaviors and Cognitive Elaboration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsuan-Ting Chen ◽  
Yonghwan Kim ◽  
Michael Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Attitude Polarization ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Incidental Exposure ◽  
Serial Mediation

Abstract Using two-wave U.S. panel survey data, this study proposes a moderated serial mediation model to examine through what paths and under what conditions incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal information on social media would enhance or mitigate polarization. The findings suggest that such exposure can indirectly polarize attitude by eliciting passive scanning behaviors, but it can also indirectly attenuate attitude polarization first through active engagement with the counter-attitudinal information, then through cognitively elaborating on the information. However, the indirect depolarizing effect of incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal information on citizens’ attitude depends on the extent to which they are instrumentally motivated. The indirect effect occurs when an individual’s perceived utility of counter-attitudinal information is at a high and a middle level, but not at a low level. Implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Who Posted That Story? Processing Layered Sources in Facebook News Posts

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch ◽  
Christina L. DeVoss
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Cognitive Mediation ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Media Source ◽  
Heuristic Systematic Model ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Source Cues

With social media platforms becoming primary news sources, concerns about credibility judgments and knowledge grow. This study ( N = 233) experimentally tests the effects of multiple source cues on Facebook news posts on credibility and knowledge. Judgments of story credibility were directly influenced by media source cues, but not friend source cues. Involvement in the source topic moderated the effects of these source cues, such that particular combinations influenced credibility differently, and also influenced cognitive elaboration about the topic. Theoretical implications for cognitive mediation model of learning from the news and the heuristic-systematic model of information processing are presented.

scholarly journals Stumbling upon the other side: Incidental learning of counter-attitudinal political information on Facebook

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanqin Lu ◽  
Jae Kook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Incidental Learning ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Incidental Exposure

Drawing on a panel survey and a laboratory experiment, this study investigates incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal political information on Facebook. The frequency of Facebook use is found positively associated with incidental exposure to counter-attitudinal political information, suggesting the important role of Facebook in exposing users to political disagreement. In addition, the findings of the experiment indicate that individuals coming across counter-attitudinal Facebook posts are able to recognize the information of these posts. This study suggests that incidental exposure is an important mechanism through which social media users encounter and learn about counter-attitudinal political information. Implications are discussed in terms of the influence of social media use on democracy.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing different forms of news processing following incidental news contact: A triple-path model

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1049-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Wieland ◽  
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Cognitive Mediation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Empirical Approaches

Research on incidental news exposure in the context of social media focuses on ‘successful’ incidental news exposure – when unintended news contacts result in active engagement and knowledge gains. However, we lack both theoretical and empirical approaches to the far more likely case that people keep on scrolling through their newsfeed without any post triggering active engagement. To fill this gap, the article conceptualizes a triple-path model of incidental news exposure on social media as a process. Building upon the Cognitive Mediation Model, dual system theories on information processing and recent empirical findings, three different pathways of incidental news processing are identified: automatic, incidental and active. The triple-path model thus allows to theorize the learning potentials that can plausibly be expected from each incidental news exposure path as a starting point for future research.

Thinking, checking and learning: testing a moderated-mediation model of social media news use conditional upon elaboration on political knowledge via fact-checking

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bumsoo Kim ◽  
Eric Cooks ◽  
Yonghwan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
News Use

PurposeEmploying the cognitive mediation model, the study aims to examine a moderated-mediation mechanism of social media news use contingent upon elaboration on political knowledge through fact-checking – specifically, the interaction effect of social media news with elaboration on fact-checking.Design/methodology/approachThe moderated-mediation model is tested using panel survey data collected during the 2016 USA presidential election (N = 1,624 at Wave 1; N = 637 at Wave 2).FindingsThe findings reveal that social media news users are frequent visitors of fact-checking websites. Results also suggest that those with increased social media news use and cognitive elaboration on news content are more likely to visit fact-checking sites, which contributes to increased political knowledge.Originality/valueThe results of the current study, especially in the era of social media environment where various information is overflowing, suggest an important role of individuals' responsibility as democratic citizens given that people's cognitive elaboration and surveillance efforts, which tries to think about important public issues they consume through media, could strengthen a positive pathway toward informed citizens.

scholarly journals Childhood Trauma and Psychological Distress: A Serial Mediation Model among Chinese Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6808
Author(s):  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Xueyao Ma ◽  
Xianglian Yu ◽  
Meizhu Ye ◽  
Na Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Southeast China ◽  
General Distress ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Support Family

The consequence of childhood trauma may last for a long time. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of childhood trauma on general distress among Chinese adolescents and explore the potential mediating roles of social support and family functioning in the childhood trauma-general distress linkage. A total of 2139 valid questionnaires were collected from two high schools in southeast China. Participants were asked to complete the questionnaires measuring childhood trauma, social support, family functioning, and general distress. Pathway analysis was conducted by using SPSS AMOS 24.0 and PROCESS Macro for SPSS 3.5. Results showed that childhood trauma was positively associated with general distress among Chinese adolescents. Social support and family functioning independently and serially mediated the linkage of childhood trauma and general distress. These findings confirmed and complemented the ecological system theory of human development and the multisystem developmental framework for resilience. Furthermore, these findings indicated that the mental and emotional problems of adolescents who had childhood trauma were not merely issues of adolescents themselves, but concerns of the whole system and environment.

scholarly journals Why and How Does Empowering Leadership Promote Proactive Work Behavior? An Examination with a Serial Mediation Model among Hotel Employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2386
Author(s):  
Chung-Jen Wang ◽  
I-Hsiu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Serial Mediation

With the increasing competition in contemporary enterprise, sustainable human resource management is a powerful resource for workplace mental health. On the basis of job demands-recourses theory and conservation of resources theory, this study examined the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ proactive work behavior. It also explored how job design inspires employees to be embedded in their work and to exhibit proactive work behavior. In addition, the research probed the mediating roles of job characteristics and job embeddedness in a serial mediation model within an integrated model. Data were collected from 461 employees of three- to five-star hotels through stratified random sampling. Results indicated that (1) empowering leadership has positive influences on job characteristics and proactive work behavior; (2) job characteristics have a positive influence on job embeddedness; (3) job embeddedness has a positive influence on proactive work behavior; (4) job characteristics mediate the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior; (5) job embeddedness mediates the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior; and (6) job characteristics and job embeddedness jointly mediate the effect of empowering leadership on proactive work behavior by bootstrapping analyses. Accordingly, this study suggests that promoting sustainable human resource management is needed for human health and organizational value at work, both of which enable empowering leadership to improve proactive work behavior via job characteristics and job embeddedness. The theoretical and managerial implications of empirical findings are also discussed.

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