Polls show a strong decline in public trust of traditional news outlets

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that observed sex differences in job satisfaction are due not to the influence of sex per se, but rather to the effects of several variables which covary with sex. Biographical and job satisfaction (Job Descriptive Index) data were obtained from 154 male and 326 female state government employees. Significant observed differences (male greater than female) in satisfactions with promotions and work “washed out” when the effects of age, education, tenure in organization, tenure in present position, and four cross‐product variables were held constant through analysis of covariance. However, a nonsignificant observed difference (female greater than male) in satisfaction with pay was greatly magnified (to significance) through analysis of covariance. The hypothesis received only partial support, since a significant difference in overall job satisfaction remained after the effects of the covariate variables were partialled out. Alternative explanations for the reversal in the direction of the difference in overall job satisfaction are discussed.

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Intergenerational panel data are used to test a model of youth news socialization. We hypothesize that observing parent news reading and participating in family news discussions have concurrent effects on youth news use, ultimately resulting in a propensity for news consumption that persists into adulthood. Results from a recursive path model demonstrate parent communication variables have direct and indirect effects on frequency of youth news use. Frequency of youth news use, in turn, predicts news use among the same respondents 7 years later. We also find a latent, lagged effect of parent news reading on their kids' long-term news use. Keywords children and media, newspaper use, political socialization, panel data, citizenshipOne of most common findings in the political communication literature is the positive effect of news consumption on democratically valuable attitudes and behaviors. News use enhances political learning (