Education, Science, Technology, Innovation and Life
Open Access
Sign In
  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Media and Communication Research
  4. Vol 4, Issue 3, 2023

The Influence of News Reports and Online Comments on Postgraduates' Trust to Graduate Supervisors

Download as PDF

DOI: 10.23977/mediacr.2023.040303 | Downloads: 7 | Views: 340

Author(s)

Hui Sun 1

Affiliation(s)

1 School of Pre-school Education, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing, China

Corresponding Author

Hui Sun

ABSTRACT

In order to explore the impact of news reports and online comments on graduate students' trust to graduate supervisors, 337 graduate students were selected through the method of random sampling on campus. After reading news reports and online comments on conflict events between graduate students and supervisors, the trust scale was used to measure the trust of the research object to tutors. The results show that after controlling the satisfaction with the teacher-student relationship, the main effect of the direction of news reports, the main effect of the direction of online reviews, and the interaction effect of both are significant. The results show that the directionality of news reports and of online comments have a significant impact on the degree of trust of graduate students to their tutors. When the direction of online comments changes from positive to negative, the trust of research objects to their tutors also decreases under the conditions of positive and neutral news reports. However, under the condition of negative news reports, the trust level of the subjects to their tutors is always at a low level. Based on this result, the joint efforts of media, graduate students, tutors and schools are indispensable to build a harmonious and mutual trust between graduate students and teachers, and enhance the degree of trust of graduate students in tutors.

KEYWORDS

Conflict between graduate students and supervisors, news reports, online comments, trust to graduate supervisors

CITE THIS PAPER

Hui Sun, The Influence of News Reports and Online Comments on Postgraduates' Trust to Graduate Supervisors. Media and Communication Research (2023) Vol. 4: 15-24. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2023.040303.

REFERENCES

[1] Xu W. (2017). Building Trust with Postgraduates: Written on the occasion of my first doctoral graduation. Science & Technology Review, (18), 97.
[2] Jordan S. R., and Gray P. W. (2012). Responsible conduct of research training and trust between research postgraduate students and supervisors. Ethics & Behavior, 22 (4), 297-314.
[3] Xu X. Y. (2020). Interaction between Postgraduates and Supervisors: Influence Factors and Functioning Mechanism Model. Journal of Graduate Education, (01), 59-66.
[4] Wang J. X., and Wang J. (2017). Image of Medical Personnel in News Media and Its Influence on Doctor-Patient Trust. Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Social Science), 6 (2), 99-104.
[5] Ahn H. (2011). The effect of online news story comments on other readers' attitudes: focusing on the case of incongruence between news tone and comments. The University of Alabama.
[6] Lee E. J., and Jang Y. J. (2010). What do others' reactions to news on internet portal sites tell us? Effects of presentation format and readers' need for cognition on reality perception. Communication Research, 37 (6), 825-846.
[7] Kim K., and Rhee J. (2005). Rethinking “reading” online: The effects of online communication. The Korean Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies, 50 (4), 65-94.
[8] Lim Y. S., and Brandon V. D. H. (2014). Evaluating the wisdom of strangers: the perceived credibility of online consumer reviews on yelp. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 20 (1), 67-82.
[9] Kim K., and Kim J. (2005). Analyzing readers’ comments in Internet newspaper Oh-My-News. Korean Journal of Broadcasting and Telecommunication Studies, 19 (3), 7-40.
[10] Choi S. C., and Han G. (2011). Trust working in interpersonal relationships: a comparative cultural perspective with a focus on East Asian culture. Comparative Sociology, 10 (3), 380-412.
[11] Yaghoubi M., Asgari H., and Javadi M. (2017). The impact of the customer relationship management on organizational productivity, customer trust and satisfaction by using the structural equation model: a study in the Iranian hospitals. Journal of education & health promotion, 6 (1), 6-15.
[12] Hsu S C, and Mujtaba B. G. (2007). Team transformational leadership, trust, satisfaction, and commitment: the testing of a structural equation model in software development teams. Review of Business Information Systems, 11 (3), 17-24.
[13] Lai S. Q., and Zhu M. (2009). A literature review of online public praise. Finance, Trade and Economy, (6), 127-131.
[14] Rempel J. K., Holmes J. G., and Zanna M. D. (1985). Trust in close relationships. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 49 (1), 95-112.
[15] Zhao J., and Zuo B. (2008). The relationship between situational events, relationship orientation and interpersonal satisfaction. Psychological Exploration, 28 (3), 88-93.
[16] Farman L., Riffe D., Kifei M., and Elder S. L. (2018). Finding the truth in politics: an empirical validation of the epistemic political efficacy concept. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 26 (1), 1-15.
[17] Yang H. (2008). The effects of the opinion and quality of user postings on Internet news readers’ attitude toward the news issue. The Korean Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies, 52 (2), 254-281.
[18] Hao L., and Wang Z. Z. (2018). The preference of negative news influences the trust: a study based on the statistical data of CSS2013. Academic forums, (4), 38-47
[19] Zhang K. Z. K., Zhao S. J., Cheung C. M. K., and Lee M. K. O. (2014). Examining the influence of online reviews on consumers' decision-making: a heuristic-systematic model. Decision Support Systems, 67 (C), 78-89.
[20] Petty R. E., and Cacioppo J. T. (1996). Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Changes. New York: Springer.
[21] Petty R. E., Barden J., and Wheeler S. C. (2009). The elaboration likelihood model of persuasion. In: DiClemente RJ, Crosby R, Keyler MC (eds). Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research—Strategies for Improving Public Health, 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
[22] Zhao J. B., and Tao J. R. (2014).Influence of customer evaluation information on consumer preference. Review of Economy and Management, (2), 60-74.
[23] Ruva C. L., and Mcevoy C. (2008). Negative and positive pretrial publicity affect juror memory and decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 14 (3), 226-235.
[24] Liao Z. K. (2013). The Moderate Communication of Negative News. Journal of Social Science of Hunan Normal University, 42 (5), 131-137.

All published work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyright © 2016 - 2031 Clausius Scientific Press Inc. All Rights Reserved.