‘I am perfectly imperfect because I am a media professional’: Asserting the Association Between Media Consumption Attitude, Emotional Ownership and Personal Well-being

Abstract

A profession that leads to well-being is rewarding and fulfilling, as it is a vital factor in ascertaining the happiness and purpose of one’s life. Information and communications technology has become an integral part of everyone’s life in contemporary times. Media professionals are engaged in using various types of digital and online media for their work-related needs. At many times, due to extensive work requirements, they carry their professional commitments outside the office hours. Due to their obsessive media consumption attitude, they lose out on spending time with their families and themselves. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of such media consumption attitude in relation to personal well-being. For this, 429 working professionals from different domains of media across the Indian subcontinent participated in our survey. The results revealed that media usage has a significant role in influencing personal well-being. At the same time, emotional ownership stood to be a mediator in the relationship between media consumption attitude and personal well-being. The findings pave the way to understand the professional and personal challenges faced by media professionals, while suggesting a possible roadmap for achieving a happy and purposeful life.

Fear of Missing Out on Workplace: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Selected studies were published between 2015 and 2023 with one study published in 2019 (Budnick et al, 2019), in 2020 there will be ine research (Kumar & Lalatendu, 2020), in 2021 there were two researchs (Labban & Bizzi, 2021;, in 2022 there were two researchs (Gartner et al, 2022;Tandon et al, 2022), and in 2023 there were one research (Schuster et al, 2023). The research articles used are from United States (Budnick et al, 2019;Labban & Bizzi, 2021;Schuster et al, 2023;Tandon et al, , 2022, India (Kumar & Lalatendu, 2020), and Austria (Gartner et al, 2022).…”

“…The data obtained in each research is the workers (Budnick et al, 2019), media professionals (Kumar & Lalatendu, 2020), working professionals , employees (Labban & Bizzi, 2021;Tandon et al, 2022), SMEs (Gartner et al, 2022), and adult social media overusers (Schuster et al, 2023). A complete overview of the characteristics of the study is presented in Table 1.…”

“…The second study in 2020 was conducted to measure the influence of media consumption behavior on the personal well-being of media working professionals from different domains (Kumar & Lalatendu, 2020). The results showed that media consumption plays a significant role in the well-being of working professionals.…”

Knowledge management and technological innovation in family SMEs context

“…For example, in a family scenario, the availability and responsiveness of parents and caregivers assume a relevant role in shaping a child's sense of security (Mikulincer and Shaver, 2005). This theory has been extended from a social connotation to an organizational context (Kumar and Jena, 2020;Bjo ¨rnberg and Nicholson, 2007), which has also been connected to organizational citizenship behavior (Richards and Schat, 2011) and better work-life satisfaction (Hazan and Shaver, 1990). In an organizational environment, attachment plays a key role in understanding how to motivate employees to perform new tasks (Pierce et al, 2003) and how to create a trust-based relationship.…”

“…Cognitive aspects include opinions and beliefs, whereas affective factors rely on members’ emotions (Pierce et al , 2003). It augments the sense of individual gratification and satisfaction in their entire lives (Kumar and Jena, 2020). Pierce et al (2003) investigate psychological ownership by introducing the concept of emotional ownership, which combines cognitive and affective elements.…”