In the light of a vast political information ‘buffet’, so-called news-avoiders stay away from the news for indefinite periods of time. Recent research suggests that news avoidance can be intentional or unintentional. However, research has mostly focused on one form of news avoidance or has not differentiated at all. Based on survey data, this study (a) identifies and compares motivations for intentional and unintentional avoidance and (b) investigates drivers of different news avoidance motives. Findings suggest that, overall, avoidance is rooted in the preference for other pastimes, with intentional avoiders also being tired of news and seeing it as too negative, biased, and unreliable. Further, different motives are driven by specific characteristics: Political knowledge and internal efficacy relate to ‘cognitive’ motives, empathy, and being negativity-prone to ‘emotional’ motives, while external efficacy relates to ‘political’ motives.

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不感兴趣、不抱幻想还是不知所措？有意和无意回避新闻背后的动机分析

鉴于大量的政治信息“自助餐”，所谓的新闻回避者会无限期地远离新闻。最近的研究表明，新闻回避可能是有意或无意的。然而，研究主要集中在一种形式的新闻回避上，或者根本没有区分。根据调查数据，本研究 (a) 识别和比较有意和无意回避的动机，以及 (b) 调查不同新闻回避动机的驱动因素。研究结果表明，总体而言，回避的根源在于对其他消遣的偏好，有意回避的人也厌倦了新闻，认为新闻过于消极、偏见和不可靠。此外，不同的动机由特定特征驱动：政治知识和内部效能与“认知”动机、同理心、