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Understanding the effects of perceived ethics failure, compassionate leadership, and communication strategy on anti‐government sentiment
Author(s) -
Kim Soojin,
Tam Lisa,
Bach Seung
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of public affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1479-1854
pISSN - 1472-3891
DOI - 10.1002/pa.1848
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , structural equation modeling , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , perception , sentiment analysis , public relations , psychology , social psychology , political science , business , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , neuroscience
This study conceptualizes anti‐government sentiment and tests the relationships between anti‐government sentiment and three antecedents (i.e., ethics failure, compassionate leadership, and communication strategy). An online survey ( n = 1,112) was conducted in South Korea. Exploratory factor analysis with principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the measures proposed for anti‐government sentiment. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. Results show that publics' perceptions of the government's ethics failure, lack of compassionate leadership, and use of a buffering strategy for communication are positively related to their anti‐government sentiment toward the incumbent government.