The gender news use divide: Impacts of sex, gender, self-esteem, achievement, and affiliation motive on German newsreaders' exposure to news topics

Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-345

  Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a   Brück, Julia ^a   Hastall, Matthias R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gender differences; Gender roles; Information seeking; News use; Selective exposure; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349001883     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMMUN.2006.021     Document Type: Article

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