SNS 정치정보에 대한 선택적 노출, 이견토론, 공감성향이 정치집단 간 불안에 미치는 영향에 대한 탐구

초록

Recently, SNS has been serving as a distribution channel for various information. As a result, there are concerns that if individuals selectively consume only political information consistent with their perspectives on SNS, this may increase anxiety among political groups. Therefore, this study explored the effect of SNS selective exposure to political information and cross-cutting discussion on intergroup anxiety. In addition, it was examined whether individual empathy disposition moderates the relationship between cross-cutting discussion and intergroup anxiety. Results showed that both the direct effect of selective exposure on intergroup anxiety and the indirect moderated mediating effect of empathic disposition are significant. In other words, selective exposure increased intergroup anxiety, but it also played a role in reducing intergroup anxiety through cross-cutting discussion, in which the anxiety reduction was greater in people with lower empathic disposition. Results show that selective exposure not only increases inter-political group anxiety but also reduces the anxiety through cross-cutting discussion.

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