%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of Issue Involvement, News Attention, Perceived Knowledge, and Perceived Influence of Anti
%A Chao Su
%A Hao Lee
%A Lei Guo
%J Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
%@ 2161-430X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077699018790945
%X Informed by the third-person effect hypothesis, this study used a survey of 1,060 Chinese university students to analyze the impact of anti-corruption news on Chinese audiences¡¯ attitudes and political participation. This study found that university students tended to think the influence of anti-corruption news on others was greater than on themselves. In addition, issue involvement and new media attention to such news were found to reduce the self-other perceptual gap. Furthermore, the perceived effects of such news on self were positively associated with supportive attitude toward the anti-corruption policies. Meanwhile, perceived effects on others were negatively related to respondents¡¯ political participation
%K issue involvement
%K news attention
%K perceived knowledge
%K third-person effect
%K Mainland China¡¯s anti-corruption news
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699018790945