NEWS MEDIA EXPOSURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING

新闻媒体曝光与身心健康

• 批准号: 6346179
• 负责人: MARY E MCNAUGHTON-CASSILL
• 金额: $ 14.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6346179
• 关键词: anxiety; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; cognition; data collection methodology /evaluation; depression; gender difference; human subject; information seeking behavior; interview; mass information media; mental health; physical fitness; psychological shock; psychological stressor; publications; quality of life; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; radio; social psychology; socioeconomics; television

TITLE: News Media Exposure, Stress and Psychological Well-Being ABSTRACT: Technological advances made during the twentieth century have resulted in significant increases in the immediacy and graphic nature of printing, radio and television coverage of current events. Escalating competition among news providers has also resulted in an increase in the negative, sensation content of news programming. This era of burgeoning communications technologies has also been marked by increasing perceptions of stress accompanied by rising rates of depression and anxiety about health and safety among the general public. It is the premise of this project that exposure to the news media contributes to these increased perceptions of stress levels and emotional distress. However, despite the intuitive logic underlying this hypothesis, few studies have assessed the role of the news media as a source of stress. This project is designed to explore the relationship between exposure to the news media, stress and emotional well-being. The subjects in this study will be randomly selected from the San Antonio community and will be reimbursed monetarily for participation in the study. They will be interviewed by telephone regarding their media viewing habits, stress levels as assessed by their perceptions of their own resource loss in the past and future, depression, anxiety,, monitoring or blunting information seeking style, irrational beliefs, and optimistic/pessimistic attributional style are expected to moderate the relationship between media exposure and stress. The impact of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status on these relationships will also be evaluated. Finally, comparisons will be made between television, radio and print news sources in terms of their differential effects on stress responses. An empirical understanding of the relationship between media exposure, stress, emotional distress and cognitive style will make a valuable contribution to the ongoing public debate regarding the appropriate role of the media in society. Such information will also facilitate the development of clinical stress management techniques to assist those individuals who are vulnerable to this form of stress as a result of their psychological characteristics or prior stressful experiences.

摘要：二十世纪科技的进步使得印刷、广播和电视报道时事的即时性和图形化程度显著提高。新闻提供者之间日益激烈的竞争也导致了新闻节目中负面、煽情内容的增加。在这个通信技术迅速发展的时代，人们对压力的感知也在增加，同时公众对健康和安全的抑郁和焦虑率也在上升。这个项目的前提是，接触新闻媒体有助于增加对压力水平和情绪困扰的感知。然而，尽管这一假设背后的直觉逻辑，很少有研究评估新闻媒体作为压力来源的作用。这个项目旨在探讨接触新闻媒体、压力和情绪健康之间的关系。本研究的受试者将从圣安东尼奥社区随机选择，参与本研究将获得金钱补偿。他们将接受电话采访，了解他们的媒体观看习惯、通过他们对自己过去和未来资源损失的感知评估的压力水平、抑郁、焦虑、监控或钝化信息寻求风格、非理性信念和乐观/悲观归因风格，这些都有望缓和媒体暴露与压力之间的关系。还将评估性别、种族和社会经济地位对这些关系的影响。最后，将比较电视、广播和印刷新闻来源对应激反应的不同影响。对媒体曝光、压力、情绪困扰和认知风格之间关系的实证理解，将对正在进行的关于媒体在社会中适当作用的公开辩论做出宝贵贡献。这些信息还将促进临床压力管理技术的发展，以帮助那些由于其心理特征或先前的压力经历而易受这种形式压力影响的个人。