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Strategic Messaging in a Political Crisis: Testing the Integrated Model for Explaining the Communication Behavior of Publics

Crisis response message strategies were examined using a post test-only randomized experiment (N=252) to determine their influence on perceptual, cognitive, and motivational antecedents to communication behavior in a political context. Results indicate that: (1) strategy type influences perceived strategy effectiveness; (2) situational beliefs influence situational motivation, subjective norm, and attitudes; (3) subjective norm and attitudes influence behavioral intention; and (4) referent criterion, situational motivation, and behavioral intention influence communicative action in publics during a political crisis.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:USF/oai:scholarcommons.usf.edu:etd-5961
Date01 January 2013
CreatorsSchweickart, Tiffany Lynn
PublisherScholar Commons
Source SetsUniversity of South Flordia
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceGraduate Theses and Dissertations
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