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Relationship Between Political News Using and Online Political Participation: Roles of Political Trust and Political Interest
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Abstract
In order to explore the impact of political news use on college students' online political participation and its mechanism, this study conducted a questionnaire survey and data analysis on 420 college students. The results show that the political news using can positively predict college students' online political participation, and political trust mediates this relationship; The moderated mediation model shows that political interest moderates the relationship between the political news using and online political participation, that means, the higher the political interest, the stronger the impact of the political news using on online political participation.
Keywords
Political interest, Online political participation, Political news using, Political trust
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Yun,J. (2023). Relationship Between Political News Using and Online Political Participation: Roles of Political Trust and Political Interest. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,2,10-15.
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