Stronger than partisanship and motivated reasoning: news exposure and news frames predicting US state-level preventive behaviours against COVID-19

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Risk & Society Pub Date : 2022-11-29 DOI:10.1080/13698575.2022.2147903

Zhan Xu

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Abstract

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has become a partisan issue rather than an independent public health issue in the US. This study examined the behavioural consequences of motivated reasoning and framing by investigating the impacts of COVID-19 news exposure and news frames, as apparent through a Latent Dirichlet topic modelling analysis of local news coverage, on state-level preventive behaviours as understood through a nationally representative survey. Findings suggested that the media effects on various preventive behaviours differed. The overall exposure rate to all COVID-19 news articles increased mask-wearing but did not significantly impact other preventive behaviours. Four news frames significantly increased avoiding contact or avoiding public or crowded places. However, news articles discussing anxiety and stay at home order triggered resistance and countereffects and led to risky behaviours. ‘Solid Republican’ state residents were less likely to avoid contact, avoid public or crowded places, and wear masks. However, partisan leanings did not interfere with the impact of differing local COVID-19 news frames on reported preventive behaviours. Plus, statements regarding pre-existing trust in Trump did not correlate with reported preventive behaviour. Attention to effect sizes revealed that news exposure and news frames could have a bigger impact on health behaviours than motivated reasoning.

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比党派关系和动机推理更强大:新闻曝光和新闻框架预测美国各州针对COVID-19的预防行为

在美国，新冠肺炎疫情已成为一个党派问题，而不是一个独立的公共卫生问题。本研究通过调查COVID-19新闻曝光和新闻框架对国家级预防行为的影响，考察了动机推理和框架的行为后果，这一点通过对地方新闻报道的潜在狄利克雷主题建模分析得到了体现，并通过全国代表性调查了解了这一点。研究结果表明，媒介对各种预防行为的影响是不同的。对所有COVID-19新闻文章的总体接触率增加了口罩佩戴率，但对其他预防行为没有显著影响。四个新闻框架显著增加了避免接触或避免公共或拥挤场所的人数。然而，讨论焦虑和居家秩序的新闻文章引发了抵制和反作用，导致了危险行为。“坚定的共和党”州的居民不太可能避免接触，避免公共或拥挤的地方，戴口罩。然而，党派倾向并没有影响不同的地方COVID-19新闻框架对报告的预防行为的影响。此外，关于先前对特朗普信任的陈述与报道的预防行为无关。对效应大小的关注表明，新闻曝光和新闻框架对健康行为的影响可能比动机推理更大。

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期刊介绍： Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed. Public awareness of risk is associated with the development of high profile media debates about specific risks. Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health. Not only is health a major issue of personal and collective concern, but failure to effectively assess and manage risk is likely to result in health problems.