Binge-Watching and Psychological Well-Being: Media Use Between Lack of Control and Perceived Autonomy

Granow, Viola C.; Reinecke, Leonard; Ziegele, Marc

doi:10.1080/08824096.2018.1525347

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“…Escape motivation was the strongest factor for most of the symptoms of excessive binge-watching. Many studies on behavioral addiction showed that the Internet, video games, social media and shopping can be a way to avoid daily life problems [4,7,10,[58][59][60][61]. The results of the research show that excessive binge-watchers have a tendency to use these behaviors as a strategy to regulate their emotions [7].…”

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Personality Traits and Motivation as Factors Associated with Symptoms of Problematic Binge-Watching

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Advance in new technologies has created a new form of consuming television. Binge-watching can be highly entertaining behavior, but its excessive forms could lead to development of risk of addiction. The aim of the study was to identify psychological factors associated with symptoms of problematic binge-watching and to establish on what devices and platforms young people tend to binge-watch. The results of the study indicate that Polish university students usually binge-watch on laptops and smartphones by using the Internet—streaming platforms or other websites. Low Conscientiousness was the strongest variable related to symptoms of binge-watching from all the personality traits. Furthermore, results show that there is a significant relationship between low Agreeableness, low Emotional Stability, low Intellect and problematic binge-watching. Moreover, escape motivation was the strongest factor from all motivational variables.

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Personality Traits and Motivation as Factors Associated with Symptoms of Problematic Binge-Watching

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“…Another question pertains to the right 'dose' of media consumption for optimal recovery effect. A recent study by Granow, Reinecke, and Ziegele (2018) demonstrated, for example, that binge watching may have both negative and positive effects on recovery, depending on whether it conflicted with other goals and obligations or not (for the critical role of self-control in the context of THE R²EM-Model 28 media entertainment, also see the chapter by Reinecke and Meier in this volume). Similar critical questions also arise with regard to the relationship between entertaining media use and resilience.…”

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Media Entertainment as a Self-Regulatory Resource: The Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media Use (R²EM) Model

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In recent years, the perspective of media use and its contribution to positive outcomes for its users has been expanded towards the media’s potential to facilitate recovery from stress and strain and to support the replenishment of physical and psychological resources. The accumulation of empirical findings in this area calls for a systematization and theoretical integration. The present chapter therefore reviews latest developments in recovery theory and systematically summarizes previous research on the effects of recreational media use. It then proceeds in presenting a new model, the Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media use Model (R²EM-Model), linking entertainment use to the short-term experience of recovery and to the contribution to long-term development of resilience-enhancing factors. The chapter concludes with a discussion of open questions and future challenges in this field of research.

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“…There is growing evidence that prolonged involvement in binge-watching may become problematic and engender damaging consequences for viewers (e.g., lack of sleep, decreases in exercise and healthy eating, less effective day-to-day functioning, and reduced social life; Exelmans & Van den Bulck, 2017;Hernández Pérez & Martínez Díaz, 2016;Rubenking, Bracken, Sandoval, & Rister, 2018;Vaterlaus, Spruance, Frantz, & Kruger, 2018). As a behavior obviously involving a self-control dilemma (i.e., succumbing or not to the vivid desire to watch "just one more" episode) as well as potential dysregulation implying negative consequences, a growing body of research have, therefore, emerged in parallel to investigate the potential addictive nature of binge-watching (e.g., Granow, Reinecke, & Ziegele, 2018;Orosz, Bőthe, & Tóth-Király, 2016;Riddle, Peebles, Davis, Xu, & Schroeder, 2017;Shim, Lim, Jung, & Shin, 2018;Starosta, Izydorczyk, & Lizińczyk, 2019).…”

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Overcoming the unitary exploration of binge-watching: A cluster analytical approach

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Background and aims: Binge-watching (i.e., watching multiple episodes of a TV series in one session) has recently become standard practice among TV series viewers; this expansion generates concerns regarding the potential negative outcomes associated with this habit. However, the investigation of its psychological correlates remains fragmentary, with few initial studies a priori conceptualizing this behavior as a new addictive disorder. This study explored these psychological correlates using cluster analysis of binge-watching behavior based on three key psychological factors: motivations, impulsivity, and emotional reactivity. Methods: An online survey was completed by 4,039 TV series viewers. Data were analyzed using hierarchical and non-hierarchical cluster analyses, the validity of the clusters being finally determined through mutual comparisons with a selection of external correlates. Results: Four clusters were identified: recreational TV series viewers (presenting low involvement in binge-watching), regulated binge-watchers (moderately involved), avid binge-watchers (presenting elevated but non-problematic involvement), and unregulated binge-watchers (presenting potentially problematic involvement associated with negative outcomes). Discussion and conclusions: This study underlines the heterogeneous and multidetermined nature of binge-watching. Our findings suggest that high engagement in binge-watching is distinct from problematic binge-watching, thus reinforcing the notion that conceptualizing binge-watching as an addictive disorder is of low relevance and might actually lead to the overpathologization of this highly popular leisure activity.

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Binge-Watching and Psychological Well-Being: Media Use Between Lack of Control and Perceived Autonomy

Cited by 80 publications

References 14 publications

Personality Traits and Motivation as Factors Associated with Symptoms of Problematic Binge-Watching

Personality Traits and Motivation as Factors Associated with Symptoms of Problematic Binge-Watching

Media Entertainment as a Self-Regulatory Resource: The Recovery and Resilience in Entertaining Media Use (R²EM) Model

Overcoming the unitary exploration of binge-watching: A cluster analytical approach

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