Spiral of Political Learning: The Reciprocal Relationship of News Media Use and Political Knowledge Among Adolescents

Communication Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 1078-1094

  Moeller, Judith ^a   de Vreese, Claes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

news use; political knowledge; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073213629     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650215605148     Document Type: Article

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