Catalan adolescents’ media uses and leisure preferences related to new media and television

Fedele, Maddalena; Muñoz, Núria García; Prado, Emili

doi:10.1386/cjcs.7.1.51_1

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“…Various research has documented that leisure is one of the essential life quality domains and core ingredients of wellbeing [ 4 ]. Leisure activities reflect particular profiles corresponding to numerous variables, including age [ 5 , 6 , 7 ], health [ 8 , 9 , 10 ], goals and personality traits [ 11 ], gender [ 12 , 13 ], cultural contexts [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ], emotions [ 19 , 20 , 21 ], intrinsic motivational orientation [ 22 ], among others.…”

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“…Despite recognized temporal enjoyments in viewing, several studies pointed to its potential harms, including links to the “bedroom culture” phenomenon, lower physical activity, and self-control [ 6 , 25 , 44 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ]. However, some research indicates that television as a leisure preference, especially for shared viewing with the family, can be a good tool for socializing and relaxation [ 7 ]. Consequently, it can also be linked to life satisfaction.…”

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Associations between Leisure Preferences, Mindfulness, Psychological Capital, and Life Satisfaction

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2022

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This study intended to explore which leisure preferences contribute to mindfulness, psychological capital, and life satisfaction and assess whether mindfulness, psychological capital, and life satisfaction are associated with different leisure preferences. This study applied the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-12), the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), and the instrument to evaluate the prevalence of leisure preferences. A sample consisted of 586 participants, 104 males and 478 females. The mean age of participants was 42.06, SD = 13.29. The results show that respondents who did not spend free time watching television scored higher on life satisfaction, mindfulness, and psychological capital. Participants who preferred attending events scored higher on life satisfaction and psychological capital. Participants who preferred spending time with family as a leisure preference scored significantly higher on life satisfaction, mindfulness, and psychological capital, including PsyCap overall, PsyCap work, PsyCap relationship, and PsyCap health. The findings also reveal that time spent with family is significantly associated with life satisfaction. Besides, males’ life satisfaction was significantly associated with time spent in nature, while females’ satisfaction was associated with spending time with family and participating in events. Males’ mindfulness was significantly associated with book reading, and females’ mindfulness was associated with not watching television. Males’ psychological capital was significantly associated with spending time with family and book reading, and females’ psychological capital was associated with not watching television but spending time with family, participating in events, and spending time in nature. The findings also showed that mindfulness mediated the link between watching television and life satisfaction, and psychological capital mediated links between spending time with family, participating in events, and life satisfaction. The findings demonstrate that life satisfaction is also significantly associated with spending time with family as a leisure preference. This study also revealed a significant negative association between age and spending time with friends or family, evidencing the possible loneliness of elderly respondents. Due to limitations of this study, including sample size and characteristics, cultural context, and research design, the research findings would preferably be regarded thoughtfully.

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Associations between Leisure Preferences, Mindfulness, Psychological Capital, and Life Satisfaction

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“…We could say that tweens in our study use YouTube (online interactions with the content) to feed conversations of offline interactions with peers. Hence, YouTube is involved in developing relationships amongst tweens (Colás-Bravo et al, 2013;Fedele et al, 2015), but not through the platform itself. This is more accentuated in the case of girls and is similar to the way traditional media, in particular television, is used.…”

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“…That study found no significant differences in the frequency of use of social networks between boys and girls; however, it did note differences in motivations: boys had more emotional motivations, whereas girls had more relational motivations. Another study about adolescents' media diet, carried out in Catalonia, recognized some mainly relational and socialising functions in information technologies in the lives of adolescents (Fedele et al, 2015), which is more marked in girls. However, another study, carried out in the Basque country, showed the "opposed male/female patterns in the way young people consume, create and diffuse leisure content" (Fernández-de-Arroyabe-Olaortua et al, 2018, p. 61).…”

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YouTube Preferences and Practices of Preadolescents: Findings From a Study Carried Out in Catalonia

2021

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Recent data confirm the central role that YouTube plays in the media life of young people in the west, and especially in the media practices of adolescents and preadolescents. This article presents a study on tweens’ YouTube preferences and media practices. The study was based on the uses and gratification theory and applied a quantitative-qualitative approach: a questionnaire was administered to 1,406 preadolescents (x = 12, 11 years-old) from 41 secondary schools, and three focus groups with six participants (three girls and three boys) each were carried out in three schools. The results reveal that the tweens participating in the study consider YouTube as a social media and a video catalogue. They especially like YouTube’s content, in particular entertainment (music and humour) and self-learning (tutorials); however, they generally dislike its interactive functions (e.g., sharing and commenting). Moreover, their media practices on YouTube reveal that tweens incorporate YouTube into their everyday media life within other social media, although they use it predominantly to consume media content in a “traditional”/“non-interactive” way, similar to traditional television use. Despite this they do not consider it as a “new” television. Finally, tweens in our study use YouTube especially for entertainment, and, on a second level, for self-learning and socialising functions. Further studies need to be carried out to go deeper into the prosumption possibilities for tweens’ both on YouTube and other social media.

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“…En el caso de los adolescentes, el papel que los medios pueden tener en su visión de la realidad y del mundo que los rodea puede ser mayor, a causa de la etapa psicológica que viven, caracterizada por la construcción de la identidad, un proceso básico para el sentimiento de arraigo y pertenencia del individuo (Erikson, 1980). El entorno social se convierte en un elemento clave en este proceso que es a la vez individual y social, ya que la identidad se construye en un contexto relacional: dentro de un entorno constituido por la familia, las instituciones educativas, el grupo de pares, y también de los medios de comunicación que realizan funciones socializadoras (Fedele, García-Muñoz y Prado, 2015).…”

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El “chico malote” y la “chica responsable”: modelos aspiracionales y representaciones juveniles en las teen series españolas

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2019

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Catalan adolescents’ media uses and leisure preferences related to new media and television

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Associations between Leisure Preferences, Mindfulness, Psychological Capital, and Life Satisfaction

Associations between Leisure Preferences, Mindfulness, Psychological Capital, and Life Satisfaction

YouTube Preferences and Practices of Preadolescents: Findings From a Study Carried Out in Catalonia

El “chico malote” y la “chica responsable”: modelos aspiracionales y representaciones juveniles en las teen series españolas

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