뉴스보도의 책임귀인 프레임 유형과 위험 속성이 범죄의 책임소재, 수용자의 정서적 반응과 행위의도에 미치는 영향: 정신질환자 범죄 기사를 중심으로

초록

This study examined the social stigma effects which are caused by news reports related to the mentally ill criminal. For validating the social stigma effects, this study explored whether news audiences’ perceptions and attitudes toward mentally ill are differed depending on the way of highlighting two stigma message attributes: responsibility and peril. The experimental design was 2(responsibility frames: personal responsibility frame/societal responsibility frame) × 3(peril attributes: symptom-related peril/crime-related peril/control group condition) between-subjects factorial. A total of 211 undergraduates partook in the experiment. The results revealed that there were significant differences in participants’ interpretation of causes, solutions, dangerousness of mentally ill’s crime by variating responsibility frames and peril attributes. There was a difference in participants’ perception of responsibility of mentally ill’s crime with the use of different responsibility frames. Also, the use of societal responsibility frame elicited more participants’ pity than that of personal responsibility frame.

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