Entertaining Media Use and the Satisfaction of Recovery Needs: Recovery Outcomes Associated With the Use of Interactive and Noninteractive Entertaining Media

Reinecke, Leonard; Klatt, Jennifer; Krämer, Nicole C.

doi:10.1080/15213269.2011.573466

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“…33 Many of the positives attributed to games have been demonstrated using a narrow range of action gaming contexts and may depend on specific structural and motivational affordances not widely present in electronic games. 19 Likewise, although the salutatory effects of play on recovery and emotions have been shown for short-term outcomes 11,12 the present research suggests modest broader effects. Optimism expressed by some theorists about the transformative nature of gaming may be tempered when viewed in light of the small effects linking positive child outcomes to low levels of daily game engagement.…”

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“…Games provide a wide range of novel cognitive challenges, opportunities for exploration, relaxation, and socialization with peers. Research focusing on the potential benefits of games indicates they may bolster adjustment by providing psychologically rewarding experiences 11 that dispel negative affect, 12 inspire prosocial behavior, 13 foster creativity, 14 as well as broaden self-concept 15 and build social connections. 16 In addition, playing some types of games may serve to minimize externalizing problems by building executive control, 17 attention skills, 18 healthy behavior, 3 and visuospatial abilities.…”

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Electronic Gaming and Psychosocial Adjustment

2014

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The rise of electronic games has driven both concerns and hopes regarding their potential to influence young people. Existing research identifies a series of isolated positive and negative effects, yet no research to date has examined the balance of these potential effects in a representative sample of children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to explore how time spent playing electronic games accounts for significant variation in positive and negative psychosocial adjustment using a representative cohort of children aged 10 to 15 years. METHODS: A large sample of children and adolescents aged 10 to 15 years completed assessments of psychosocial adjustment and reported typical daily hours spent playing electronic games. Relations between different levels of engagement and indicators of positive and negative psychosocial adjustment were examined, controlling for participant age and gender and weighted for population representativeness. RESULTS: Low levels (<1 hour daily) as well as high levels (>3 hours daily) of game engagement was linked to key indicators of psychosocial adjustment. Low engagement was associated with higher life satisfaction and prosocial behavior and lower externalizing and internalizing problems, whereas the opposite was found for high levels of play. No effects were observed for moderate play levels when compared with non-players. CONCLUSIONS: The links between different levels of electronic game engagement and psychosocial adjustment were small (<1.6% of variance) yet statistically significant. Games consistently but not robustly associated with children’s adjustment in both positive and negative ways, findings that inform policy-making as well as future avenues for research in the area.

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“…The use of entertaining media formats helps to recover from stressful situations experienced in daily life (Reinecke, 2009;Reinecke, Klatt, & Krämer, 2011). Recent research established strong relationships between the use of certain media types and the positive outcomes for mental well-being (Rieger, Reinecke, Frischlich, & Bente, 2014).…”

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“…As news stories rarely apply to one's own circumstances and often deal with rather abstract topics (Bird, 1998), many news consumers, hence, experience a negative feeling of powerlessness (Woodstock, 2014). Third and final, the lack of absorption potential (see Bartsch & Schneider, 2014;Boukes, Boomgaarden, Moorman, & de Vreese, 2015) -hard news is not as distracting from everyday concerns as entertainment (Boczkowski & Mitchelstein, 2010) -makes that watching the news probably deteriorates rather than facilitates recovery of people's psychological resources (Reinecke, 2009;Reinecke et al, 2011). Thus, we expect the following: H 1 : Consumption of hard news negatively affects developments in mental well-being.…”

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News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect

Boukes

Vliegenthart

2017

Journal of Media Psychology

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News consumption and its unpleasant side effectBoukes, M.; Vliegenthart, R. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Abstract Following the news is generally understood as crucial for democracy as it allows citizens to politically participate in an informed manner; yet, one may wonder about the unintended side effects it has for the mental well-being of citizens. With news focusing on the negative and worrisome events in the world, framing that evokes a sense of powerlessness, and lack of entertainment value, this study hypothesizes that news consumption decreases mental well-being via negative hedonic experiences; thereby, we differentiate between hard and soft news. Using a panel survey in combination with latent growth curve modeling (n = 2767), we demonstrate that the consumption of hard news television programs has a negative effect on the overtime development of mental well-being. Soft news consumption, by contrast, has a marginally positive impact on the trend in well-being. This can be explained by the differential topic focus, framing and style of soft news vis-a-vis hard news. Investigating the effects of news consumption on mental well-being provides insight into the impact news exposure has on variables other than the political ones, which definitively are not less societally relevant.Keywords: news consumption; mental well-being; hedonic experiences; negativity; hard versus soft news.1 Please refer to this paper as follows: Boukes, M. & Vliegenthart, R. (2017). News consumption and its unpleasant side effect: Studying the effect of hard and soft news exposure on mental well-being over time. Italy; the Amsterdam police fighting drugs-related crime; an 11 year-old boy who stabbed two other boys in Landgraaf; the war in Ukraine; more children being hospitalized for alcohol abuse; Ebola in Liberia; financial problems of the European Union regarding Greece; the development of artificial skin for people with health problems. Except for the last, a long list of stories that probably not leave the viewer with feelings of joy and hope (i.e., hedonic experiences) but may rather evoke anger and fear.Following the news, nevertheless, is generally understood to be desirable behavior as it would be crucial for the functioning of democracy (Althaus, 2012). ...

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“…Mood repair through escapism is included in validated scales on motivations for play [12] and game addiction [25], and surveys have found that both adults [19,34] and children [14] report mood regulation as a major motivation for play. Several researchers have started to examine how games facilitate recovery from the stress of life [4,5,9,35]. Finally, researchers have suggested that digital games provide an opportunity for improved emotion regulation [21], for example, by rewarding players who downregulate negative affect [16].…”

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