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Journal of Chinese Political Science
Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science 1/2012

01-03-2012 | Research Article

Understanding Support for Internet Censorship in China: An Elaboration of the Theory of Reasoned Action

Authors: Steve Guo, Guangchao Feng

Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science | Issue 1/2012

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Abstract

This study investigates young people’s support for Internet censorship in China within the broad conceptual approach of the theory of reasoned action (TRA). Two concepts, authoritarian personality and third-person perception, were scrutinized as part of our extension of the elaboration of the TRA model. We also closely examined dimensions pertinent to the unique social context of China such as party membership, Confucianism tradition, and one-child policy. A sample of 266 college students in a large metropolitan was surveyed and Structural Equation Modeling was employed in data analyses. Support for censorship based on TRA received general empirical evidence. So did the submissive dimension of authoritarian personality. Mixed findings were discussed and future research directions were suggested.
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Footnotes
1
In China, CNN is only accessible legitimately in starred hotels and illegitimately via personal satellite dish.
 
2
Some families have more than one child legitimately through re-marriage. Others do it illegitimately through bribery, forgery of document, or paying heavy fines.
 
3
With MLR estimation, both the indirection effect estimation with the delta method [20, 83‐85] are not available in Mplus. Therefore, the mediation effects were not reported.
 
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Metadata
Title
Understanding Support for Internet Censorship in China: An Elaboration of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Authors
Steve Guo
Guangchao Feng
Publication date
01-03-2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Chinese Political Science / Issue 1/2012
Print ISSN: 1080-6954
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6357
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-011-9177-8

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