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Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge
Prior work on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge has yielded mixed findings. One recent meta-analysis on the topic concluded that the literature, when assessed as a whole, fails to indicate a direct and statistically identifiable between relationship general so...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1226861 |
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description | Prior work on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge has yielded mixed findings. One recent meta-analysis on the topic concluded that the literature, when assessed as a whole, fails to indicate a direct and statistically identifiable between relationship general social media use and political knowledge. Considering these findings, the present work sought to assess the extent to which general social media use might be conditionally related to political knowledge. To do so, we explored the moderating effect of information-related self-efficacy beliefs. Specifically, building upon general self-efficacy theory and the idea that there exists considerable concern over the extent to which information on social media is factually incorrect, misleading, or biased, we predicted that mis and disinformation self-efficacy (MDSE) beliefs would positively condition the relationship between general social media usage and political knowledge. Contrary to our expectations, the results of three studies indicated that the combination of MDSE and frequent social media use was negatively related to political knowledge. |
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spelling | pubmed-106590902023-10-31 Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge Hopp, Toby Kazmi, Saima Front Psychol Psychology Prior work on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge has yielded mixed findings. One recent meta-analysis on the topic concluded that the literature, when assessed as a whole, fails to indicate a direct and statistically identifiable between relationship general social media use and political knowledge. Considering these findings, the present work sought to assess the extent to which general social media use might be conditionally related to political knowledge. To do so, we explored the moderating effect of information-related self-efficacy beliefs. Specifically, building upon general self-efficacy theory and the idea that there exists considerable concern over the extent to which information on social media is factually incorrect, misleading, or biased, we predicted that mis and disinformation self-efficacy (MDSE) beliefs would positively condition the relationship between general social media usage and political knowledge. Contrary to our expectations, the results of three studies indicated that the combination of MDSE and frequent social media use was negatively related to political knowledge. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10659090/ /pubmed/38022925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1226861 Text en Copyright © 2023 Hopp and Kazmi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hopp, Toby Kazmi, Saima Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title | Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title_full | Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title_fullStr | Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title_short | Assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
title_sort | assessing the potential conditioning effects of mis and disinformation self-efficacy on the relationship between general social media use and political knowledge |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1226861 |
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