本研究以路徑分析的方式，研究情殺新聞與第三人效果之相關性。以社會距離、閱聽人對訊息的負面程度感知與涉入感，檢驗閱聽人是否會對情殺新聞產生第三人效果。也嘗試預測第三人效果是否可以使閱聽人支持限制媒介，也將限制媒介的行為納入研究。研究結果顯示，閱聽人普遍認為情殺新聞會對青少年產生負面影響，且第三人效果確實可以預測閱聽人支持限制媒介的態度，但對情殺新聞的 負面認知與涉入感並非影響第三人效果的要素。另外，第三人效果感知雖未能支持限制媒介之行為，但涉入感、對情殺新聞的負面感知程度與社會 距離卻可以對行為層面產生影響。

The goal of this study was to clarify the relationship between murder news and the Third-Person Effect by path analysis. We use several factors, such as social distance, the audience involvement and the negative degree that audience feel about those messages, observing whether audience will affect by the love crime cases on the news, then bring out the third-person effect. In addition, we also predict that whether the reaction of audience can support for restrictions on media message, and take those restriction activities into account.

The results show that those audience generally consider that love crime news would definitely have pessimistic impacts toward teenagers. In addition, the third-person effect perception cannot back up activities for supporting restrictions on media message. But the involvement, the negative perception degree of the love crime news, and social distance have a great influence on behavioral dimensions.