A Study on the Psychological Mechanism of Peoples Trust in Government under Perceived Risk
When arousing fear and anxiety to some public issues with potential threats,the audience will be under perceived risk,and hope that the authorities(government,experts)take some actions to protecting them.After the government conforming to people and proposing solutions,the audience will have more confidence in the government or even rely on it,thus the government credibility was enhanced.But if the government take actions reversely,or do nothing at this critical moment,it will have a destructive impact on government credibility.Here,we launched two studies.In study 1 we described threatening events in three different perspectives to manipulate the type of threats in experiments/control groups,found that significant concerns and expectation to government of subjects were inspired by threatening information.Study 2 confirmed that subjects in risk perception would trust the government more after seeing the government take measures in the way they want,thus the government credibility was enhanced step by step.The general discussion part include analyzes of the relationship between mass media,the government and the public,and some suggestions for the government in promoting new issues.Conclusion has been posted at the last second part.Finally,limitations of this study and the prospect of further research are put forward.
Perceived risk Government action Government credibility Mass media
GAO Jing-zhen ZENG Wei-xi
School of Political Science and Public Administration,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu,P.R.China,611731
国际会议
加纳
英文
605-610
2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）